![]() This incudes Harry Houdini with wife Bess (Beatrice) seated on his left. Here is another picture of Welsh Brothers Circus, probably 1898. Here is how the Pine Street United Methodist Church would have looked around the time Harry Houdini came to Williamsport to do his lecture about mediums and spiritualists. Note it says about Spiritualism, "A positive Bible answer will be given" Here is an ad from another church in the same paper around the same time. Here us the direct link to the above picture should you wish to blow it up. The article mentions Williamsport's Pine Street United Methodist Church which is still there, though the building has been rebuilt due to a fire. HARRY HOUDINI RETURNS TO WILLIAMSPORT CIRCA 1925 The following mentions the 1895 tour and the closing of the show there. The following mentions the 1895 tour and Newton It is great to see the name of the acts Harry Houdini has often been pictured with in 1895. Who would later give birth to vaudeville performerDell O'Dell. Wonder if that was the same Newton family That show Harry Houdini Playing in Tyrone, shortly after Williamsport. Here are two listings on page 4 in the Augof the Pennsylvania Here is the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Tue, Jul 2, 1895, showing the Welsh Brothers circus appeared in Williamsport ![]() Here is the Williamsport Sun-Gazette, Williamsport, Pennsylvania, Monday, Jul 1, 1895, This picture would have been from a Harry Houdini scrapbook. He is the one of the far right with the number 6 on the picture. Here is Harry Houdini as he looked in Williamsport, Pennsylvania in 1895. Museum in Scranton, the only building in the world dedicated to Houdini.įurthermore, a Houdini exhibit is on display in the lobby of City Hall. Uncovered by magicians Dorothy Dietrich & Dick Brookz of the nearby Houdini The crowd he "had never seen any town change as much." His exploits here were With a huge $5,000 challenge to do something he could not replicate. Of his show at the church, he exposed spiritualists who claimed to contact the dead Papers raved about his "Metamorphosis" trick. In 1895, not yet famous, Houdini, 21, performed at the "old fair grounds" with The present church was dedicated in 1980. Houdini performed in the church built in 1910 that was Three buildings, erected here in 1826, 1843, and 1868-69, had already comeĪnd gone prior to this visit. Harry Houdini appeared here at the Pine Street United Methodist Church in theġ920's.
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