He got his "Scarface" after being knifed by a drunk at Frankie Yale's Harvard Inn in Brooklyn in 1917
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He F*cking Deserved It: How Al Capone Got His Famous Scars | A ...  Jun 17, 2015 ... When reporters worked up the nerve to ask, he'd say he got it from a German ... Back in 1917, Al was an eighteen-year-old hood working as a main bouncer and bartender at Frankie Yale's Harvard Inn, a cheap bar and brothel off of Coney Island's ... Frank lurched to his feet, drunk and mad as hell.
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How Al "Scarface" Capone Got His Scars - Today I Found Out  Mar 12, 2015 ... He officially dropped out of school soon after, like several of his brothers. ... At 15 or 16 years old, Al joined his first gang, the South Brooklyn Rippers. ... of gangsters, like Meyer Lansky, Bugsy Siegel, Frankie Yale, and Al Capone. ... Being a bouncer at Harvard Inn required a certain finesse, according to...
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The Life and Death of Mafia Capo Anthony Carfano - Gangsters Inc.  Dec 12, 2015 ... By Thom L. Jones Life being what it is, one thinks of revenge ... It was the little guy they were after. ... Most newspapers reporting his death, state he was 61 or 62. ..... that Frank Galluccio (right) the man who gave Scarface Al Capone his ... The Harvard Inn, a Yale-owned bar on Coney Island, with his sister,...
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Origins of the Scars - My Al Capone Museum  Back in 1917 young burly Al Capone was working at the Harvard Inn on ... Frank was just about to ask Capone to stop when Capone leans over to ... at Galluccio who quickly takes out a pocket knife and slashes Capone three times. He aimed for the neck, but got his face instead as Galluccio had several drinks that evening.
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Al Capone- Crime Boss  About 1917, begins calling himself "Yale" and opens the. Harvard Inn, a large dive in Coney Island, making his young protege, ... drunk, scars Capone's face with three slashes of his knife over an insult to his ... How did Al Capone get his nickname Scarface? ... What city did Capone live in when he filled out his draft card?
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Story of the scene: 'Chinatown' Roman Polanski (1974) | The ...  May 1, 2008 ... Polanski whips out a flick knife and sticks it up Nicholson's nose. ... Polanski slits Nicholson's nostril with his knife and the blood covers his ... The filming of Chinatown had been a fractious business, with ... Entire town helps terminally ill man harvest his farm ... Five questions you should ask in job interviews...
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Mobsters and Rumrunners of Canada - Lone Pine Publishing  U.S. prohibition laws in the 1920's led to lucrative dealings between ... The Bronfman brothers of Seagram Distillers fame made their fortune selling booze to American ... The steely-eyed gazes of the other gangsters sent a chill down Sam's back. ... Capone hoped to strike an even bigger booze-smuggling deal there in the...
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Al Capone gun on display at Mob Museum | The Mob Museum  Not only did Capone have a lot to hide, he was dodging assassination ... the gun since seizing it from a man accused of illegal gambling in Kentucky in 2004. ... crime back in the Prohibition and post-Prohibition eras, Ullman said at the unveiling. ... Capone, the boss of the Chicago Outfit, obtained the gun in 1928 while he...
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Frank Galluchio, the man that gave Al Capone his nickname of ...  FRANK GALLUCCIO NEW YORK HOOD MAFIA MOBSTER AL CAPONE GAMBLING . .... the famous St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago, and Capone claimed ... Claiming descent from the Italian royal family, DeCavalcante was nicknamed .... would kill, then cut out and eat the liver of each Crow brave he came across.
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Al Capone - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  al capone, alphonse capone, scarface, organized crime, chicago, 1920s, gambling ... Capone's multi-million dollar Chicago operation in bootlegging, prostitution and gambling ... for his racketeering but was finally brought to justice for income-tax evasion in 1931. .... Capone was found guilty and sent to prison for 11 years.
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Baby Face Nelson (1908-1934)Triggerman for Al Capone ... - Pinterest  Baby Face Nelson 1908-1934 part of the Dillinger gang. ... Born in Chicago, Illinois, Lester Gillis began his criminal career stealing cars and hanging .... He grew up in Chicago slums where he took up boxing and changed his name to ..... era gangsters, gangsters 1920s 1930s 1940s, mobsters gangsters criminals, notorious...
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Kathie Lee's NY | New York Post  Oct 21, 2012 ... Frankie & Johnnie's Steakhouse, 269 W. 45th St., between Shubert Alley and Eighth ... I asked this one guy, 'Have you ever been schlaged?
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On this frigid morning, in an unheated brick garage at 2122 N. Clark ...  On this frigid morning, in an unheated brick garage at 2122 N. Clark St., seven men ... By 1929, Capone's only real threat was George "Bugs" Moran, who headed his own gang ... by George "Bugs" Moran, where the St. Valentine's Day massacre took place on Feb. ... Al Capone is believed to have orchestrated the event.
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Billy Bathgate by E.L. Doctorow  Reviews, Discussion, Bookclubs ...  Bill said: This picaresque novel about Bronx-born Billy Bathgate Behan, a street ... infamous gangster Dutch Schultz, who lures the boy into his world of racketeering. ... Original Title ...... Billy Bathgate is Doctorow's eighth novel (1989). ..... by the subject (teenager growing up in the waning days of the Dutch Schultz mob)...
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St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Facts & Summary - HISTORY.com  Find out more about the history of St. Valentine's Day Massacre, including ... Valentine's Day in 1929 was one of the bloodiest days in mob history when 7 men were ... Al "Scarface" Capone rose to power after a rival gang was in shambles as a ... longtime enemies, were shot to death by several men dressed as policemen.
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Al Capone - Wikipedia  Alphonse Gabriel "Al" Capone was an American gangster who attained fame during the ... AKA Ralph "Bottles" Capone, who took charge of his brother's beverage industry; ... The wounds led to the nickname that Capone loathed: "Scarface". .... Ralph, his brother and a gangster in his own right, was tried for tax evasion in...
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Al Capone 85-AZ - Alcatraz History  Rumored to have started pimping prostitutes before reaching puberty, he ... outcry against gangster violence, and public sentiment went against Capone. ... Big Al had become one of the most powerful crime czars in Chicago. .... Capone's time on Alcatraz was not easy time. ... Capone's cell at Eastern State Penitentiary
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Al Capone - Organized Crime - Biography.com  Mar 3, 2016 ... AKA: Al Capone; Nickname: Scarface: Snorky; Full Name: Alphonse Capone ... If they couldn't be bought they wouldn't have the job. .... Bugs Moran and his gang were lured by a bootlegger into a garage to buy whiskey. ... Furthermore, agent Eliot Ness, angered by Capone for the murder of a friend,...
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The St. Valentine's Day Massacre - Feb 14, 1929 - HISTORY.com  But Moran was late and happened to see police officers entering his ... Capone was jailed in 1931 and Moran lost so many important men that he could no ... al capone, alphonse capone, scarface, organized crime, chicago, 1920s, gambling .... murder seven members of the George Bugs Moran North Siders gang in a...
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Al Capone - Biography - IMDb  Infamous Chicago gangster Al Capone was born in the tough Williamsburgh ... the scar to wounds he received in battle while fighting with the famous "lost battalion" in ... So great was his power that he claimed he "owned" Chicago, and once ... face that gave him his famous nickname came from an incident in 1918 while he...
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Al Capone died of syphilis a few years after his release from Alcatraz ...  Frank Galluchio, the man that gave Al Capone his nickname of Scarface. Save ... In less than a year in 1943 Hans, his sister Sophie and Christoph Probst were...