1917—???? Friendship with Al Capone

11:26In Brooklyn, where he worked as a bartender, Alois met a man named Frankie Yale. He had no idea this man was the head of the Mafia and accepted his offer to work as the head bartender in Harvard Inn, Yale's new business. It was 1917 and Alois's star started to rise. Frankie hired other employees, among them a young 18-year-old man named Alphonse Gabriel Capone. Alois started to call him Al and since that time no one has called him anything else. Al worked both as Alois's barback and Frankie's bouncer. Unfortunately, as time went by, Al became more interested in violence than in the bartender's trade. He was Frankie's right-hand man and became a full-time mafioso. Nevertheless, he and Alois continued to be good friends. This is also testified to by the fact Alois later worked as the head alcohol smuggler for Capone's organization.