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A commercial garage on the north side of Chicago was the setting for the most horrific shooting in Mob history, the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. On February 14, 1929, seven members and associates of George “Bugs” Moran’s bootlegging gang were lined up against a wall and shot dead inside the garage at 2122 North Clark Street. In a Chicago Tribune story by Ronald Koziol, dated February 13,1987, it was rumoured that George Segal, the actor who played Peter Gusenberg in the St.Valentine's day massacre movie, removed one of the bricks as a keepsake while they were filming inside the 2122 N.Clark location. This was probably fabrication as his agent denied these rumors. The Mob Museum owns a large section of the brick wall against which the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre victims stood. In 1967, the wall was torn down, and a Vancouver businessman named George Patey bought the bricks, some of which had divots from bullets fired during the Massacre. The St. Valentine’s Day Massacre of 1929 – a mystery still unsolved – is the story of seven men, gunned down in a Chicago warehouse. The Mob Museum tells this story, brick by brick, bullet by bullet, on its website dedicated entirely to the Massacre: stvalentinemassacre.com. How about if we call it St. Valentine's Day? This is the story of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre at a Lincoln Park garage, and some stories of the paranormal in its wake. The St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the intended album title for rapper 50 Cent's second studio album. It was later retitled The Massacre, due to date pushbacks. The album was released on March 3, 2005. [18] Grand Theft Auto Online featured an update titled the Valentine's Day Massacre Special. The update released on February 14, 2014. [19] On the morning of February 14, 1929, seven members of George “Bugs” Moran’s North Side bootlegging gang were lined up against a brick wall and shot dead. The perpetrators were never prosecuted, but few people then or now doubt that Al Capone’s Outfit was behind what the press called the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. The actual massacre is also dramatized in Roger Corman‘s 1967 film The St. Valentine‘s Day Massacre. From The Untouchables to Boardwalk Empire , Peaky Blinders to The Simpsons , the specter of Al Capone‘s Chicago and the St. Valentine‘s Day Massacre continues to loom large as a symbol of the Prohibition era‘s lawlessness, corruption How the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Wall came to the museum is its own unusual tale. Thirty-eight years after the massacre, the wall’s building was finally torn down. Businessman George Patey of Vancouver, British Columbia, bought the numbered bricks—still full of shells and slugs fired during the massacre. Site of the St Valentine's Day Massacre. Chicago, Illinois. It happened on February 14, 1929, when six members of the Bugs Moran gang (and one very unlucky bystander) were gunned down by members of the Al Capone gang. The victims were stood against a brick wall and shot. St. Valentine’s Day Massacre HISTORY OF AL CAPONE Al Capone, Chicago’s most powerful, ruthless gangster in the 1920s era, was really a Brooklyn transplant who migrated to Chicago with his best buddy and future cohort in Chicago crime, Johnny Torrio who was originally hired by his Chicago mobster uncle, Big Jim Collisimo. Only One Berlin Wall. Only one Wailing Wall. And only one St. Valentine’s Day Massacre Wall.” Patey placed an engraved brass plaque on each brick explaining the significance. Each brick came in a display case with an audio cassette featuring a dramatic reconstruction of the crime. The Saint Valentine's Day Massacre is the name given to the 1929 murder of seven mob associates as part of a -era conflict between two powerful criminal gangs in Chicago: the South Side Italian gang led by Al Capone and the North Side Irish gang led by Bugs Moran. A crowd outside the Clark Street garage at 2121 North Clark Street, owned by George “Bugs” Moran, where the St. Valentine’s Day massacre took place on Feb. 14, 1929. She is the host of “The Hauntings of Chicago” on PBS and the co-host of "The Haunting of M.R. James." The Original Chicago Hauntings Bus Tour and the Lincoln Park Ghost Hunt Tour visit the site of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, the only ghost tours in Chicago that travel to the site. Relive Chicago's Bloodiest Valentine: The Mob Massacre [Verse 1] / Once I built a railroad, made it run / Made it race against time / Once I built a railroad (once he built a railroad), now it's done / Brother, can you spare a dime St. Valentine’s Day Massacre GENUINE ORIGINAL Brick from the Building Description: SOLD. $1200/Offer This is an actual brick salvaged from SMC Cartage Company 2122 Clark Street in Chicago where mobsters dressed as Chicago Police officers used Thompson machine guns to murder rival gang members in the St. Valentine Massacre on February 14, 1929.. In a Chicago Tribune story by Ronald Koziol, dated February 13,1987, it was rumoured that George Segal, the actor who played Peter Gusenberg in the St.Valentine's day massacre movie, removed one of the bricks as a keepsake while they were filming inside the 2122 N.Clark location. This was probably fabrication as his agent denied these rumors. Community Corner Cursed Bricks, Noises, Poltergeists Of The St. Valentine's Day Massacre It all came to a head in Chicago's Lincoln Park neighborhood on the morning of Feb. 14, 1929. Sought-after brick from the St. Valentine's Day Massacre garage wall. Original rectangular brick from the garage on 2122 N. Clark Street, in Chicago, the scene of the St. Valentine’s Day Massacre. Unique to Chicago, known as a ‘Chicago Common’ in the trade, the brick was made from local clay following the Chicago Fire.
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