The Gruesome Story Of The St. Valentine's Day Massacre

As the years flew by, the Valentine's Day Massacre became part of pop culture. By 1932, Al Capone had been made the subject of the classic movie "Scarface," and incredibly, by the 1950s, the massacre itself had become a joke in the comedy classic "Some Like it Hot" (via Mob Museum).

Perhaps unsurprisingly, by the '50s, the infamous garage wall against which the shooting took place had a very weird afterlife as a tourist attraction, notes Chicago Detours. Morbid visitors regularly went to visit the building even after it had been converted into a furniture store. Although the building was eventually knocked down, the bricks were carted away for safekeeping by George Patey, who took the bloody blocks on tour. After seeing the world (or rather Canada), he later reassembled them to make a wall in his mobster-themed nightclub.

By the '90s, Patey decided to sell the bricks. Many of the bricks were later acquired by the Mob Museum in Las Vegas, where you can still see them today — the bullet holes are real, but the blood is fake. The site of the murder in Chicago on the other hand is now an empty parking lot — still haunted by tourists.

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