{"id":25,"date":"2004-11-02T00:20:16","date_gmt":"2004-11-02T05:20:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/?p=25"},"modified":"2004-11-02T00:26:27","modified_gmt":"2004-11-02T05:26:27","slug":"blackstone-sr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/02\/blackstone-sr\/","title":{"rendered":"Blackstone, Sr."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Steve Pellegrino <a target='_blank' href=\"http:\/\/magic.atomicbrew.com\/index.php?p=174\">wrote in his blog<\/a> about a folder full of stuff he found, which prompted him to start a new category at <a target='_blank' href=\"http:\/\/magic.atomicbrew.com\">Magic Rants<\/a> about the history of magic. To get things rolling, he&#8217;s scanned a tent card for &#8220;An Evening of Magic&#8221; with Harry Blackstone and Lance Burton. He&#8217;s posted the scan as a PDF; please go have a look.<\/p>\n<p>His post reminded me of a black and white 8&#215;10 publicity photo I&#8217;ve been holding onto for many, many years. This photo ties in nicely with Steve&#8217;s post as it is a photo of Blackstone&#8217;s dad, Harry Blackstone, Sr. applying his makeup before a mirror. I love this picture and though you might like to take a peek at it.<\/p>\n<p align=center><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/images\/blackstone.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no question the Blackstone name is indelibly marked in the history books of magic. <a target='_blank'  href=\"http:\/\/www.blackstonemagic.com\/id28.htm\">Here&#8217;s a nice site<\/a> where you can learn more about father and son from someone who should know; Gay Blackstone.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday Steve Pellegrino wrote in his blog about a folder full of stuff he found, which prompted him to start a new category at Magic Rants about the history of magic. To get things rolling, he&#8217;s scanned a tent card for &#8220;An Evening of Magic&#8221; with Harry Blackstone and Lance Burton. He&#8217;s posted the scan <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/2004\/11\/02\/blackstone-sr\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.escamoteurettes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}