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By this time he had been wriggling out of straitjackets for almost twenty years but never before while suspended upside down over a street in full view of thousands.

Last but not least, Kasson ( Houdini Tarzan and The Perfect Man) mentions the following: He appears first to have executed this escape in Kansas City on September 8, 1915.

Los Angeles in September 1915 is clearly an error Brandon doesn’t provide sourcing for Los Angeles or Kansas City, although Kansas City likely came from the October 1915 edition of Will Goldston’s Magazine of Magic. The same month, 5,000 saw him in Kansas City, where the tie-in was with the Kansas City Post.

Brandon ( The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini) mentions the following: In September 1915, “the greatest street throng in the history of Los Angeles” – 20 -25,000 people – had seen him swing from the Los Angeles Tribune building.

Koval ( Houdini Research Diary) doesn’t mention him being in Kansas City at all in September 1915.

So did he perform in Kansas City in September 1915? It just so happens that I have the October 1915 edition of Will Goldston’s The Magazine Of Magic, with the article “ Harry Houdini – His Latest Escape”.īut nowhere in the above “ Harry Houdini His Latest Escape” article do we see a date.

So what is this mention by Will Goldston? Well the Sept 29 th, 1915 date in Minneapolis is well sourced, so that leaves the Kansas City date that needs more research. There is a very nice discussion on The Magic Cafe Forums but nothing is definitive. Silverman says it was hanging forty-five feet from the office building of the Minneapolis Evening Tribune on Septemsourced to a newspaper in the Stanley Palm collection. Kalush via a mention by Will Goldston says it was September of 1915 in Kansas City. Where and when did Houdini first perform the suspended straitjacket escape?Īnd of course, when I am intrigued by something, this blog is what you get.This is more likely 1917 based on the record of Alexandra Carlisle in the play “The Country Cousin.I was intrigued by a question that John Cox brought up on his blog: Harry Houdini escaping a straitjacket while suspended upside down in Manhattan (Broadway and 46th Street, New York: 1907).Image credit: Ephemeral New York – When Houdini hung upside-down over Broadway Harry Houdini on liberation « Entersection Says:.I love the part in the novel ‘Ragtime’ when Houdini is hanging upside down and sees a guy in a window giving him the finger. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.Ĥ Responses to “When Houdini hung upside-down over Broadway” You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. This entry was posted on Maat 6:41 am and is filed under Cemeteries, Midtown, Music, art, theater, Queens.

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