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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre Wall bricks

BEWARE!

The ONLY authentic numbered bricks coming from the Actual massacre wall, were purchased and sold by Mr. George Patey of Vancouver B.C. Canada. Any others claiming to have a brick lot and selling several bricks from the massacre wall, are selling building rubble from the surrounding walls at 2122 North Clark, and NOT actual massacre wall bricks. The 6' high by 10' wide wall where Frank Gusenberg, Peter Gusenberg, Al Weinshank, Adam Heyer, James Clark, John May and Reinhardt Schwimmer were lined up and shot against, was sold,disassembled, numbered, and shipped to Mr. Patey.

Authentic bricks from gangland's most famous hit.

Authentic Patey massacre wall brick.

This particular brick from my collection was on display at the Gerald R. Ford Museum.

January 24-June 13, 2004

ALL THAT JAZZ: AMERICA IN THE 1920S - As World War I ended, the traditional powers of Europe and the Western World were shaken to their very foundations as Kings, a Czar and a Kaiser toppled, boundaries of nations and peoples changed, and the world shook its head in wonder at the devastation of the first global, mechanized war that left millions dead and maimed. From the ashes of the Old World rose the United States as one of the world's acknowledged super powers. Americans were repulsed at the destruction of the war and vowed never again to be drawn into a European conflict. The end of the war also marked the beginning of a new era for America-an age of success, excess, heroes and villains. All That Jazz: America in the 1920s marks our first in-house production in the new temporary exhibit gallery. The 1920s was a decade that set the tone for the United States for much of the rest of the twentieth century. Mass media such as the radio came in vogue, movies became popular icons and sports emerged into public consciousness. Great American writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis were read by all, the music of Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin and Cole Porter blared at dance halls, and we looked up to our heroes Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, and Henry Ford. It was a decade of sports legends such as Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Bobby Jones, and Jack Dempsey. The silver screen made legends of Charlie Chaplin, Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino. Prohibition and government scandals created other legendary villains such as Al "Scarface" Capone and Albert Fall. All That Jazz will portray the 1920s through artifacts such as Admiral Byrd's flight suit and sun compass used on his South Pole exploration, the guns used by Sacco and Vanzetti in their ill-fated hold-up, a Model A Ford, the personal effects of Al Capone, Babe Ruth, Rudolph Valentino, Louis Armstrong, F. Scott Fitzgerald and an original Edison ticker tape machine used to track the stock market. Numerous other artifacts will trace the times such as early radios, "flapper" clothing, movie posters and the manuscripts of Cole Porter, Willa Cather and others. The use of film clips and music will allow visitors to witness the sights and sounds of the era.

Gerald R. Ford Museum

303 Pearl Street NW

Grand Rapids, MI 49504-5353

Open daily from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. (Closed New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day).

Admission is $5.00 for adults, $4.00 for senior citizens, and free for children under the age of 16. Free parking is available.

Gerald R. Ford museum massacre brick display.

Close up of display

These bricks were once part of the wall where the Moran gangsters were shot against by Capone hired killers.

Model of Massacre scene

Holding my Tommy and my massacre wall brick from 2122 N.Clark ,Chicago.

Mr . George Patey had acquired the whole massacre wall back in 1967. He originally heard the auctioning of the famous wall in the summer of 1967 while listening to his car radio.He decided to purchase it. He was the lucky high bidder for this auction,outbidding two others. He had the 6' high by 10 ' wide wall painstakingly taken apart and numbered. He had them shipped like fine china into Canada.They were declared as construction material at several pennies a piece for duty. He then pondered the possiblities for his new acquistion.He had them placed in a crime show at a shopping mall, then museums and galleries.In 1968 the timing was a bit off as Robert Kennedy at that time was murdered and the public was in no mood to view history of wholesale murder. Mr. Patey decided to stop the exhibition and placed his bricks in retirement.In 1971, he opened a roaring twenties bar called the Banjo Palace and installed the bricks inside the men's washroom of his nightclub.Women would go in and peek at this famous wall. Plexiglass was placed in front of it, so that patrons could urinate and try to hit the targets painted on the plexiglass.The bar closed in 1976.The bricks were placed in storage till 1997 when he tried to auction it off on a website called Jet Set on the Net.The deal fell through after a hard time with the auction company and later Mr. Patey decided to sell them brick by brick on his own personal site.Last i heard ,Mr. Patey still had a few left .He has kept the bullet holed one for his own personal keepsake and has last appeared on History's Lost and Found with his wall.

Each brick was numbered when removed from 2122 North Clark street on November 9, 1967.This was done as to facilitate the reconstruction for the exhibit.This brick is K7

(Mario Gomes)

This brick is numbered T1. It was located next to Peter Gusenberg who was slumped on a chair.

Descriptive plaque on brick explaining it's provenance.The brick came with an audio cassette with the reconstruction of the crime played out.

Side view.This brick was estimated to be mid - level between Adam Heyer and John May.

On my way to re-constructing massacre wall.Only 412 bricks to go. (Yeah right)!

Back view of brick. It is made from clay that was near the Chicago river. It contains

remains of the great Chicago fire as most of the burned out buildings were dumped in the Chicago river.

Brick from Mr. Patey's wall. A fake blood stain was placed on reconstructed wall to show where the blood once was. The original white wash (yellowish) can still be seen under layers of powdery coated plaster.The plaster was applied all over the wall to try and conceal it's original state by the Werners.They wanted to disuade visitors from coming in to see it.

Two massacre wall bricks along with brick from opposite wall of 2122 North Clark street.

Mr. George Patey of Vancouver, Canada displaying brick with bullet hole. He has his foot on top of the other massacre bricks. Mr. Patey has done hundreds of T.V. radio and newspaper interviews. (Photo courtesy of Mr. Patey)

Car used as a backdrop for Mr. Patey's massacre exhibition. (Courtesy of Mr. Patey)

The wall numbering system went as follows in this above diagram.

The 6 foot high by 10 foot wide wall was irregular and many bricks broke apart leaving

empty gaps on the sides ( zig-zag effect).The common wall shared by the dry cleaners next door and had rows that started straight and veered off course as they progressed. The total of the removed wall consisted of 414 bricks. Rows of full sized bricks consisted of approx. 14 bricks while 4 half brick rows consisted of 28 bricks.These half bricks are located at rows D,J ,P and U . There were a total of 7 bricks hit by schrapnel out of an approximate 72 fired shots.One is in Mr. Patey's posession (numbered M12) and the remaining others were removed by souvenir hunters. 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.

His agent denies these rumors. They was also talk of the missing bricks being taken by the Demolition workers themselves. So as of right now, i know were two bullet holed bricks are located ,but the remaining 5 are missing in action. I was also told ,but yet unconfirmed that Ralph Capone had a brick over his mantle piece in his home in Mercer, Wisconsin. Bullet hole or not these bricks are a significant piece of Chicago Gangland history and any ownership of one of the bricks from the massacre wall should be considered as a very important museum piece and a one of a kind artifact from a documented gangland event that was heard around the world back in 1929.

The fascination with this event is not the slaughter itself as it was very horrible and totally unwarranted. The mystique lies in the missing facts to know who exactly the slayers were and trying to comprehend what type of cold brazen killer could do this to seven other unsuspecting human beings. Machinegunning is one thing ,but later walking up to one a placing a shotgun at close range and blasting off half his face is another.

The other fascination is that these bricks saw who the killers were and and what exactly transpired in that garage at 2122 North Clark street on February 14,1929 at 10:30 am.Now, if only someone could get these bricks to talk!

The garage was used as a furniture warehouse by the owner after the massacre. Later the building was owned by the Werner family as a storage facility. Many tourists would come and pester Mrs. Werner for a peek at the wall where those men were killed..People from all over the globe Germany, Holland, Japan etc.....

Mrs. Werner stated if she knew what this building stood for she never would have aqcuired it.

It was slated for destruction in 1967 not before Twentieth Century Fox filmed some parts of the Movie called "The St.Valentine's Day Massacre" in it.

In early 1967 Mr. George Patey from Vancouver , B.C. , Canada hears the radio announce "They are tearing down the garage that onced housed this old gang of mine" The rest is history!

{A bit about Mr. Patey ,he's today 75 and has been in the entertainment business all his life and has rubbed shoulders next to people like Marilyn Monroe, Milton Berle, and a month with the Royal Family. He has been successful in all his endeavors and is in my opinion a great human being. I have had the chance to conversate with him on several occaisions and it was always a pleasure}!

Many years has passed since the building was torn down and stories began to surface of the massacre wall bricks containing evil mystical powers. Some say the spirits of the dead men went through the wall to get away from the killers.Others stories added on went on to say that these bricks brought extreme bad luck and anyone who bought one was faced with financial ruin and even death.

Well as of right now i will clarify any misconceptions anyone has toward these bricks.

1) They DO NOT brick bad luck!!!They just sit there. I have two massacre wall bricks in my Capone room and sometimes sleep in this room peacefully with no gangster ghosts or massacre victim's spirits tugging at my feet and as for financial ruin, well, i didn't need the bricks for that one as this hobby of mine has done that for me already thank-you very much! (Ha!Ha! Ha!)

2) Mr. Patey has owned this wall since 1967 and has been a successful businessman all his life.

3) The stories of anyone buying one and having bad luck and returning them are total and purely fabricated bullcrap. The real fact is that Mr. Patey has never ever sold any bricks to anyone in the past!!! (1967-1999). He was going to in 1997, but the deal fell through). He has just recently been selling them on his own since 1999.

The reassembled wall with mannequins and Tommyguns. ( Mr. George Patey)

Descriptive letter from City of Chicago Notary public and demolition company as to removal of massacre wall.

Holding my Valentine's day massacre brick and Al capone's scarf for the newspaper photo.

George Patey's massacre display.

Two bricks from 2122North Clark street building (not the massacre wall). Brick on the bottom was part of the front of the building that was remodeled.

Another View

These bricks were purchased from Mr. George Patey of Vancouver B.C.

On a sad note

George Patey

Mr. George Patey the one and only St. Valentine's day massacre wall owner passed away at the Hawaiiana Hotel In Honolulu on December 26th at 5:09 in the A.M. The official cause of death was cardiac failure.Mr. George Patey the Canadian businessman who purchased the massacre wall back in 1967 and recently sold them brick by brick.

I had the brief opportunity to befriend him and was amazed by how happy and jovial he was despite the various illnesses that plagued him.(Cancer, degenerative eyesight,weak heart ).He amused himself in his later years entertaining seniors retirement homes with his stand up comedy and jokes.

He was in the entertainment industry and met many a legend.He told me about working with Marilyn Monroe and Milton Berle etc...He even played a bit part in one of her movies.Uncle Milty was a %$# to work with.

George just loved to talk about the massacre.It obsessed him as does a few here including myself.He told me that in spring of 1967 he was driving around in his cadillac in Vancouver when a news report came through the radio that they were tearing the garage that housed that old gang of mine.2122 North Clark was slated for destruction that fall.Mr. Patey thought it a great idea to buy it to promote his boss' restaurant ,but the boss' wife objected.George not to be dissuaded decided to buy the wall for himself.Out of 3 to 4 bidders Mr. Patey won the high bid for the wall and had it all shipped to Canada declaring them as construction material and only taxed several cents a brick. He then pondered the possiblities for his new acquistion.He had them placed in a crime show at a shopping mall, then museums and galleries.In 1968 the timing was a bit off as Robert Kennedy at that time was murdered and the public was in no mood to view history of wholesale murder. Mr. Patey decided to stop the exhibition and placed his bricks in retirement.In 1971, he opened a roaring twenties bar called the Banjo Palace and installed the bricks inside the men's washroom of his nightclub.Women would go in and peek at this famous wall. Plexiglass was placed in front of it, so that patrons could urinate and try to hit the targets painted on the plexiglass.The bar closed in 1976.

The Banjo Palace in Vancouver B.C.

The massacre wall re-assembled as a urinal at the Banjo palace.Patrons would line up to hit the targets and if successful a cascading waterfall would wash away the urine.

Banjo Palace Patron taking a whizz.

Inside the men's washroom of the now defunct Banjo Palace.

The bricks were placed in storage till 1997 when he tried to auction it off on a website called Jet Set on the Net.The deal fell through after a hard time with the auction company and later Mr. Patey decided to sell them brick by brick on his own personal site.

Hey George! You will be missed,but you're not forgotten! Keep making them laugh up there!


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The ONLY authentic numbered bricks coming from the Actual massacre wall, were purchased and sold by Mr. George Patey of Vancouver B.C. Canada. Any others claiming to have a brick lot and selling several bricks from the massacre wall, are selling building rubble from the surrounding walls at 2122 North Clark, and NOT actual massacre wall bricks. The 6' high by 10' wide wall where Frank Gusenberg, Peter Gusenberg, Al Weinshank, Adam Heyer, James Clark, John May and Reinhardt Schwimmer were lined up and shot against, was sold,disassembled, numbered, and shipped to Mr. Patey. Authentic bricks from gangland's most famous hit. Authentic Patey massacre wall brick. This particular brick from my collection was on display at the Gerald R. Ford Museum. January 24-June 13, 2004 ALL THAT JAZZ: AMERICA IN THE 1920S - As World War I ended, the traditional powers of Europe and the Western World were shaken to their very foundations as Kings, a Czar and a Kaiser toppled, boundaries of nations and peoples changed, and the world shook its head in wonder at the devastation of the first global, mechanized war that left millions dead and maimed. From the ashes of the Old World rose the United States as one of the world's acknowledged super powers. Americans were repulsed at the destruction of the war and vowed never again to be drawn into a European conflict. The end of the war also marked the beginning of a new era for America-an age of success, excess, heroes and villains. All That Jazz: America in the 1920s marks our first in-house production in the new temporary exhibit gallery. The 1920s was a decade that set the tone for the United States for much of the rest of the twentieth century. Mass media such as the radio came in vogue, movies became popular icons and sports emerged into public consciousness. Great American writers such as Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sinclair Lewis were read by all, the music of Louis Armstrong, George Gershwin and Cole Porter blared at dance halls, and we looked up to our heroes Herbert Hoover, Charles Lindbergh, and Henry Ford. It was a decade of sports legends such as Babe Ruth, Red Grange, Bobby Jones, and Jack Dempsey. The silver screen made legends of Charlie Chaplin, Clara Bow and Rudolph Valentino. Prohibition and government scandals created other legendary villains such as Al "Scarface" Capone and Albert Fall. All That Jazz will portray the 1920s through artifacts such as Admiral Byrd's flight suit and sun compass used on his South Pole exploration, the guns used by Sacco and Vanzetti in their ill-fated hold-up, a Model A Ford, the personal effects of Al Capone, Babe Ruth, Rudolph Valentino, Louis Armstrong, F. Scott Fitzgerald and an original Edison ticker tape machine used to track the stock market. Numerous other artifacts will trace the times such as early radios, "flapper" clothing, movie posters and the manuscripts of Cole Porter, Willa Cather and others. The use of film clips and music will allow visitors to witness the sights and sounds of the era. Gerald R. Ford Museum 303 Pearl Street NW Grand Rapids, MI 49504-5353 Open daily from 9:00 am - 5:00 pm. (Closed New Year's Day, Thanksgiving Day, and Christmas Day). Admission is $5.00 for adults, $4.00 for senior citizens, and free for children under the age of 16. Free parking is available. Gerald R. Ford museum massacre brick display. Close up of display These bricks were once part of the wall where the Moran gangsters were shot against by Capone hired killers. Model of Massacre scene Holding my Tommy and my massacre wall brick from 2122 N.Clark ,Chicago. Mr . George Patey had acquired the whole massacre wall back in 1967. He originally heard the auctioning of the famous wall in the summer of 1967 while listening to his car radio.He decided to purchase it. He was the lucky high bidder for this auction,outbidding two others. He had the 6' high by 10 ' wide wall painstakingly taken apart and numbered. He had them shipped like fine china into Canada.They were declared as construction material at several pennies a piece for duty. He then pondered the possiblities for his new acquistion.He had them placed in a crime show at a shopping mall, then museums and galleries.In 1968 the timing was a bit off as Robert Kennedy at that time was murdered and the public was in no mood to view history of wholesale murder. Mr. Patey decided to stop the exhibition and placed his bricks in retirement.In 1971, he opened a roaring twenties bar called the Banjo Palace and installed the bricks inside the men's washroom of his nightclub.Women would go in and peek at this famous wall. Plexiglass was placed in front of it, so that patrons could urinate and try to hit the targets painted on the plexiglass.The bar closed in 1976.The bricks were placed in storage till 1997 when he tried to auction it off on a website called Jet Set on the Net.The deal fell through after a hard time with the auction company and later Mr. Patey decided to sell them brick by brick on his own personal site.Last i heard ,Mr. Patey still had a few left .He has kept the bullet holed one for his own personal keepsake and has last appeared on History's Lost and Found with his wall. Each brick was numbered when removed from 2122 North Clark street on November 9, 1967.This was done as to facilitate the reconstruction for the exhibit.This brick is K7 (Mario Gomes) This brick is numbered T1. It was located next to Peter Gusenberg who was slumped on a chair. Descriptive plaque on brick explaining it's provenance.The brick came with an audio cassette with the reconstruction of the crime played out. Side view.This brick was estimated to be mid - level between Adam Heyer and John May. On my way to re-constructing massacre wall.Only 412 bricks to go. (Yeah right)! Back view of brick. It is made from clay that was near the Chicago river. It contains remains of the great Chicago fire as most of the burned out buildings were dumped in the Chicago river. Brick from Mr. Patey's wall. A fake blood stain was placed on reconstructed wall to show where the blood once was. The original white wash (yellowish) can still be seen under layers of powdery coated plaster.The plaster was applied all over the wall to try and conceal it's original state by the Werners.They wanted to disuade visitors from coming in to see it. Two massacre wall bricks along with brick from opposite wall of 2122 North Clark street. Mr. George Patey of Vancouver, Canada displaying brick with bullet hole. He has his foot on top of the other massacre bricks. Mr. Patey has done hundreds of T.V. radio and newspaper interviews. (Photo courtesy of Mr. Patey) Car used as a backdrop for Mr. Patey's massacre exhibition. (Courtesy of Mr. Patey) The wall numbering system went as follows in this above diagram. The 6 foot high by 10 foot wide wall was irregular and many bricks broke apart leaving empty gaps on the sides ( zig-zag effect).The common wall shared by the dry cleaners next door and had rows that started straight and veered off course as they progressed. The total of the removed wall consisted of 414 bricks. Rows of full sized bricks consisted of approx. 14 bricks while 4 half brick rows consisted of 28 bricks.These half bricks are located at rows D,J ,P and U . There were a total of 7 bricks hit by schrapnel out of an approximate 72 fired shots.One is in Mr. Patey's posession (numbered M12) and the remaining others were removed by souvenir hunters. 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. His agent denies these rumors. They was also talk of the missing bricks being taken by the Demolition workers themselves. So as of right now, i know were two bullet holed bricks are located ,but the remaining 5 are missing in action. I was also told ,but yet unconfirmed that Ralph Capone had a brick over his mantle piece in his home in Mercer, Wisconsin. Bullet hole or not these bricks are a significant piece of Chicago Gangland history and any ownership of one of the bricks from the massacre wall should be considered as a very important museum piece and a one of a kind artifact from a documented gangland event that was heard around the world back in 1929. The fascination with this event is not the slaughter itself as it was very horrible and totally unwarranted. The mystique lies in the missing facts to know who exactly the slayers were and trying to comprehend what type of cold brazen killer could do this to seven other unsuspecting human beings. Machinegunning is one thing ,but later walking up to one a placing a shotgun at close range and blasting off half his face is another. The other fascination is that these bricks saw who the killers were and and what exactly transpired in that garage at 2122 North Clark street on February 14,1929 at 10:30 am.Now, if only someone could get these bricks to talk! The garage was used as a furniture warehouse by the owner after the massacre. Later the building was owned by the Werner family as a storage facility. Many tourists would come and pester Mrs. Werner for a peek at the wall where those men were killed..People from all over the globe Germany, Holland, Japan etc..... Mrs. Werner stated if she knew what this building stood for she never would have aqcuired it. It was slated for destruction in 1967 not before Twentieth Century Fox filmed some parts of the Movie called "The St.Valentine's Day Massacre" in it. In early 1967 Mr. George Patey from Vancouver , B.C. , Canada hears the radio announce "They are tearing down the garage that onced housed this old gang of mine" The rest is history! {A bit about Mr. Patey ,he's today 75 and has been in the entertainment business all his life and has rubbed shoulders next to people like Marilyn Monroe, Milton Berle, and a month with the Royal Family. He has been successful in all his endeavors and is in my opinion a great human being. I have had the chance to conversate with him on several occaisions and it was always a pleasure}! Many years has passed since the building was torn down and stories began to surface of the massacre wall bricks containing evil mystical powers. Some say the spirits of the dead men went through the wall to get away from the killers.Others stories added on went on to say that these bricks brought extreme bad luck and anyone who bought one was faced with financial ruin and even death. Well as of right now i will clarify any misconceptions anyone has toward these bricks. 1) They DO NOT brick bad luck!!!They just sit there. I have two massacre wall bricks in my Capone room and sometimes sleep in this room peacefully with no gangster ghosts or massacre victim's spirits tugging at my feet and as for financial ruin, well, i didn't need the bricks for that one as this hobby of mine has done that for me already thank-you very much! (Ha!Ha! Ha!) 2) Mr. Patey has owned this wall since 1967 and has been a successful businessman all his life. 3) The stories of anyone buying one and having bad luck and returning them are total and purely fabricated bullcrap. The real fact is that Mr. Patey has never ever sold any bricks to anyone in the past!!! (1967-1999). He was going to in 1997, but the deal fell through). He has just recently been selling them on his own since 1999. The reassembled wall with mannequins and Tommyguns. ( Mr. George Patey) Descriptive letter from City of Chicago Notary public and demolition company as to removal of massacre wall. Holding my Valentine's day massacre brick and Al capone's scarf for the newspaper photo. George Patey's massacre display. Two bricks from 2122North Clark street building (not the massacre wall). Brick on the bottom was part of the front of the building that was remodeled. Another View These bricks were purchased from Mr. George Patey of Vancouver B.C. On a sad note George Patey Mr. George Patey the one and only St. Valentine's day massacre wall owner passed away at the Hawaiiana Hotel In Honolulu on December 26th at 5:09 in the A.M. The official cause of death was cardiac failure.Mr. George Patey the Canadian businessman who purchased the massacre wall back in 1967 and recently sold them brick by brick. I had the brief opportunity to befriend him and was amazed by how happy and jovial he was despite the various illnesses that plagued him.(Cancer, degenerative eyesight,weak heart ).He amused himself in his later years entertaining seniors retirement homes with his stand up comedy and jokes. He was in the entertainment industry and met many a legend.He told me about working with Marilyn Monroe and Milton Berle etc...He even played a bit part in one of her movies.Uncle Milty was a %$# to work with. George just loved to talk about the massacre.It obsessed him as does a few here including myself.He told me that in spring of 1967 he was driving around in his cadillac in Vancouver when a news report came through the radio that they were tearing the garage that housed that old gang of mine.2122 North Clark was slated for destruction that fall.Mr. Patey thought it a great idea to buy it to promote his boss' restaurant ,but the boss' wife objected.George not to be dissuaded decided to buy the wall for himself.Out of 3 to 4 bidders Mr. Patey won the high bid for the wall and had it all shipped to Canada declaring them as construction material and only taxed several cents a brick. He then pondered the possiblities for his new acquistion.He had them placed in a crime show at a shopping mall, then museums and galleries.In 1968 the timing was a bit off as Robert Kennedy at that time was murdered and the public was in no mood to view history of wholesale murder. Mr. Patey decided to stop the exhibition and placed his bricks in retirement.In 1971, he opened a roaring twenties bar called the Banjo Palace and installed the bricks inside the men's washroom of his nightclub.Women would go in and peek at this famous wall. Plexiglass was placed in front of it, so that patrons could urinate and try to hit the targets painted on the plexiglass.The bar closed in 1976. The Banjo Palace in Vancouver B.C. The massacre wall re-assembled as a urinal at the Banjo palace.Patrons would line up to hit the targets and if successful a cascading waterfall would wash away the urine. Banjo Palace Patron taking a whizz. Inside the men's washroom of the now defunct Banjo Palace. The bricks were placed in storage till 1997 when he tried to auction it off on a website called Jet Set on the Net.The deal fell through after a hard time with the auction company and later Mr. Patey decided to sell them brick by brick on his own personal site. Hey George! You will be missed,but you're not forgotten! Keep making them laugh up there!