Banks Account: Houdini in Vancouver

Another item from archives scrounger David Banks:

It seems adult men would not think about going to see Harry Houdini without a hat.

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“A larger audience showed up in 1923 to fill the streets and watch as Harry Houdini was strapped into a straight jacket and hung  from a pole out of the third storey window of The Vancouver Sun building  on Pender Street.” – John Atkin