What are you doing today, April 19? Well, exactly 110 years ago, if you were strolling through Washington DC on Pennsylvania Avenue, you'd stumble upon a huge crowd of people watching a man dangling from a rope 4 stories in the air. That same man is hanging upside down by his ankles and is wearing a straight jacket. Yes, it's Harry Houdini and he is in the Nation's Capital promoting his appearances in town.
The location today is the building next to the National Theater on Pennsylvania Avenue. The original Munsey building was torn down in 1980. At the time of Houdini's escape, the Munsey building also housed the offices of the Washington Times Newspaper. In previous articles I wrote on this escape, I never had a photo of the event. But it occurred to me that if Houdini had done this escape in front of a newspaper office, there MUST BE photos. And sure enough, I found some!
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