lifestyle of al capone
...e started spending it like “wisely”. In 1925 the normal car costed $600 and Capone was driving around in a $10,000 limo. After it was shot up by gangsters he traded it in for his customized Cadillac (the original pimp mobile) armored with steel. It weighed 14,000 pounds and the windows were a 1/4 inch thick and bullet-proof, it also had a sixteen cylinder motor and goes 120 mph. The car cost $20,000 which would be $200,000 in to days money. He partied all the time, having $50,000 barbecue’s and lots of women, which had it’s price. While in his twenty’s Al contracted syphilis and would eventually ravage his brain. One of Capone’s favorite spots to hang out was Green Mill Lounge which was a jazz club in downtown Chicago. The club was owned by one of Capone’s assassins Jack Mcgern also known as Machine Gun Jack. His job was to protect his boss and kill assassins that were trying to kill Capone. Machine Gun Jack killed more than 25 hired hitmen and his signature was to put a nickle in the hand of the person he killed. Capone supplied the booze and protection for the club while Mcgern protected him. Al was approaching the top of his game suppling over 6,000 saloons and speakeasy’s. At 28 years he was one of the richest men in America and didn’t stop there. When arch rival Bugs Moran and his north side gang moved in on Capone’s bootlegging operation he sent his number one assassin Jack Mcgern to take care of it. On February 14, 1929 Mcgern took out seven of Moran’s men in what is known as the St. Valentines Day Massacre. This was bad for Capone because now he is a marked man and Moran was out to get him. So Al needed to get out of Chicago, but make it look like he wasn’t weak and running away. So he went to Philadelphia and got arrested for carrying a concealed weapon. He was convicted and sent to Eastern State Penitentiary, which was like a castle that you not only couldn’t get out you couldn’t get in either. While in prison he went to work on the warden so he could get special privileges. He managed to get him to move him to bigger cell and give him some other things. Capone had lamps, expensive rugs, oil paintings, arm chair, and a radio. He also had the use of a telephone which he used to conduct his business. In the late twenty’s no prisoner was aloud to use the phone, let alone have their own personal line. In March 1930 he was released from prison and went back to Chicago for awhile. Capone wanted to distance himself from the violence so when hi went to Florida to over see bootlegging operation, he bought a home for $40,000. This was the biggest estate Al Capone ever purchased in his life time. Not only was the house big he did a huge make over to his new place. He built six feet high walls around the property and search lights facing the bay so no one could attack him from the water. He also had armed gaurds all over the property, at thirty at all times. The house today would have been worth a million dollars today and he got it for $50,000. The house has fifteen rooms in a 4,000 square feet, three full bathrooms, four bedrooms. The house was like a palace with (at the time)the largest pool in Florida, the pool pumped 80,000 gallons of water from the bay. Capone also had a b...