Since I stepped into "Zucchini's" tricks and things in Monterey California, I have been thinking about MAGIC. Here is an excerpt of "Making Magic" from My New Orleans. com, written by Carolyn Kolb.
"Nearly 10,000 New Orleanians crowded the wharves by the Canal Street ferry landing on Sunday, November 17, 1907, to watch magician Harry Houdini be shackled in chains and padlocks by First Recorder's Court Judge Jon Fogarty, using manacles from Orleans Parish Prison. Houdini then jumped into the Mississippi River. Half a minute later, when he emerged unchained, the crowd roared it's approval. New Orleans has always liked tricksters."
Love that story, I shall not leave this subject alone.
"No performer should bite off red-hot iron unless he has a good set of teeth." Harry Houdini
"My brain is the key that sets my mind free." Houdini
"The greatest escape I ever made was when I left Appleton, Wisconsin." Houdini
Harry Houdini (April 6 1874 - October 31 1926) Magician, escapologist, stunt performer, actor, and investigator of spiritual claims. Houdini claimed to be born in Appleton Wisconsin but it is said the birth was on March 24 1874 in Budapest, Hungary....many stories surround Houdini. He did die on Halloween in 1926! Fascinating.....
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