Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Showing posts with label California. Show all posts
Sunday, September 8, 2024

Sears The Illusionist

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  Harry Sears Knight was a remarkable man. He had an interest in magic from an early childhood. In his teens, he started to perform professi...
Wednesday, June 19, 2019

Minerva Queen of Handcuffs

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Minerva Queen of Handcuffs, also Queen of Mystery, was born Margaretha Snelling on Dec 18 1878 in Germany. Her career as an escape artist ...
Friday, June 22, 2012

The Kuda Bux Grave

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Kuda Bux was known as The Man with X-Ray Eyes. I still vividly recall seeing one of his performances on TV and being dumbfounded by what...
Saturday, January 21, 2012

WILD ABOUT HARRY: Finding the grave of Edward Saint

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The L.A. Houdini folks are at it again and this time they went searching for Dr. Edward Saint. He was the companion of Bess Houdini for ...
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Wednesday, January 11, 2012

The Other Houdini Grave

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This is the grave of Jacob Hyman , the man who gave Erich Weiss his name. If you don't know the story, two teen age friends Erich Weiss...
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Friday, August 12, 2011

Samri S. Baldwin - The White Mahatma

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While doing research for Civil War era magicians, I came across a document which led me to the location of Samri Baldwin's grave. H...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Jesse Lasky's Grave

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Though not a magician in the traditional sense, Jesse Lasky did have ties to the magic world. He performed for a time in Leon Herrmann...
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Thursday, March 10, 2011

Harry Kellar's Final Resting Place

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photo used with permission of Mike Caveney Harry Kellar had been suffering from pneumonia and died on May 10th, 1922. He was known as th...
Tuesday, January 25, 2011

Dante's Final Resting Place

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Harry August Jansen better known as DANTE was according to some the successor to Thurston.  Dante traveled the world with his show '...