A local Vancouver businessman, George Patey owned a roaring twenties themed nightclub in Gastown circa 1971 which became world famous for one macabre reason only; the urinal wall in the men's room was reconstructed from more than 400 bricks from the original Chicago wall of the infamous St. Valentine's Day Massacre.
Patey had the 6' high by 10 ' wide massacre section ( that was in the line of fire) painstakingly taken apart and numbered and had them shipped like fine china into Canada, declared through customs as construction material at several pennies duty apiece. He then pondered the possiblities for his new acquistion first having them placed in a crime show at a shopping mall, then museums and galleries, however in 1968, the timing was a bit off as Robert Kennedy had just been assassinated and the public was in no mood to view history of wholesale murder. Patey closed the exhibition and placed his bricks in retirement. In 1971, he opened a bar called the Banjo Palace and installed the bricks inside the men's washroom. Plexiglass was placed in front of it, so that patrons could urinate and try to hit the targets painted on the plexiglass. The story has it that, if you hit a target, the urinal would flush.
The bar closed in 1976.
Anyone have any guesses as to where this Gastown location might be and what's there today?