The Life and Hard Times of Belle Ryan. Phil Ryan – Author. Full text of "A history of burlesque" Building with brick begins in San Francisco - National Gold Rush History. San Francisco Kaleidoscope. Verdi at the Golden Gate: opera and San Francisco in the Gold Rush years - George W. Martin. Tales of San Francisco - Samuel Dickson.
The Concordia Sentinel: Columns: Hardheart, Truxton & horse racing in antebellum Natchez. Marina Times - A short history of bordellos in San Francisco, part 2. Our history of the bordellos of San Francisco continues with a few profiles of some of the most fascinating, outrageous, vexing — and do I dare use the word “endearing” — madams our raw-boned city has known.
Madame Irene McCready Irene McCready is generally credited with being the first madam in San Francisco. She came to the fast-growing town in April 1849 with her rakish lover James McCabe, who opened a gambling hall called El Dorado in a tent on Portsmouth Square. It soon became a magnet for the free-spirited miners with gold dust in their jeans. McCready, with McCabe’s backing, opened a simple bagnio nearby in a one-story frame building. "Belle Cora residence on Waverly Place (formerly Pike St.)" Advice on deception from a 19th Century magician. An illustration of "The Hand of Cagliostro," a version of the "Rising Card Trick.
" Here's some advice to card magicians from August Roterberg's 1897 book, New Era Card Tricks, one of the first books published exclusively for magicians: "In order to become a successful conjurer with cards, it is absolutely necessary that the learner should first thoroughly familiarize himself with the various sleights upon which the most effective card tricks are based. Of course a card magician must be familiar with the various sleights because they're the building blocks of the completed tricks. For instance, a magician might need to know how to secretly switch one deck of cards for another deck that's been previously prepared with thread so that cards are able to rise out of the deck. I wonder if Mr. Titan: A Monthly Magazine... - James Hogg. Order DVD & CD Soundtrack. Louis John Stellman. "Then why"—the other's smile was whimsical—"then why not both of my notes?
" "Do you mean it? " Sherman asked breathlessly. By way of answer Hammond drew a book of printed forms toward him. Calmly, leisurely, he wrote several lines; tore a long, narrow strip from the book and handed it to Sherman. "Here's my check for $40,000 on the United States Treasurer. Ten o'clock on the following morning. The cashier and assistant manager of Lucas & Co. watched nervously, the former now and then running his fingers through his sparse hair; the assistant manager at intervals retired to a back room where he consulted a decanter and a tall glass. History of California - Theodore Henry Hittell.
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It all started on the Mississippi when the big paddle riverboat was queen of the river. Riverboat Gamblers would entertain (and swindle) the passengers on their slow journey. The Riverboat Gamblers created this unique shuffle. Early American Crime › Cant: The Language of the Criminal Underworld. , or as it is sometimes called, is a specialized language used by criminals to keep communication about their intentions and actions from being understood by their victims or the authorities. Because any language requires a distinct group of users who can speak and understand it, cant indicates the presence of at least a quasi-community of criminals who share their unlawful methods with one another and organize themselves in similar ways. The language of cant, then, provides insight into the criminal underworld and how criminals operate. Madhatter Magic Shop - Essential Robert Houdin.
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“Temples Of Chance” In The New State Of Louisiana V. Habeas Corpus Records. Louisiana.
First Judicial District CourtHabeas Corpus records, 1831-1846 The Code of Practice in Civil Cases for the State of Louisiana (New Orleans, 1839) states that the district judges were among those empowered to grant writs of habeas corpus. Individuals were allowed to petition a judge for such writs. The confidence-man, his masquerade - Google Books. The mind's the limit. American Transcendentalism A History Philip F.
Gura Hill & Wang: 366 pp., $27.50. Mark of Integrity. An ink-filled ring (known as a trépan), used for secretly marking cards during open play.
From Sharps and Flats: A Complete Revelation of the Secrets of Cheating (1894) by John Nevil Maskelyne. Courtesy The Magic Circle Library. In the preface to S. W. Erdnase’s classic treatise on “professional” card handling, The Expert at the Card Table (1902), the author suggests that the volume may “inspire the crafty by enlightenment on artifice” and enable someone “skilled in deception to take a post-graduate course in the highest and most artistic branches of his vocation.”1 Stated more clearly, the volume is a practical guide for card cheats. Erdnase’s identity remains to this day a matter of controversy, but what is certain is that the book’s author knew the world of fin de siècle card-sharping intimately, and had strong opinions about what he had seen.2The Expert focuses on “card mechanics,” the physical mastery of card manipulation.
Code for system used to mark card above. More Magic - Professor Hoffman. The neuroscience of magic. Manufacture Marked Playing Cards. How magicians control your mind. In September of 1856, in the face of a growing rebellion, Napoleon III dispatched Jean-Eugene Robert-Houdin to Algeria.
Robert-Houdin was not a general, nor a diplomat. He was a magician - the father, by most accounts, of modern magic. (A promising young escape artist named Ehrich Weiss would, a few decades later, choose his stage name by adding an "i" to "Houdin. ") Scientists and Magicians Describe How Tricks Exploit Glitches in Perception. Gambling in Mississippi Rogues on the River – Part 1 « Southern Gaming and Destinations. Card sharps once ruled the Mississippi River, and early casinos beckoned like moths to a flame long before today’s glitter palaces crowded the beach.
The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2. Sex, Vigilantism, and San Francisco in 1856. Baltimore | Boston | Charleston | Chicago | Havana | Lima Los Angeles | Mexico City | New Amsterdam | New Orleans Paramaribo | Philadelphia | Potosi | Quebec City | Salt Lake CitySaint Louis | Santa Fe | San Francisco | Washington, D.C.
Sex, Vigilantism, and San Francisco in 1856 Michelle Jolly When Charles Cora accompanied his mistress, Arabella Ryan, to the theater on November 15, 1855, neither had any idea that their choice of an evening’s entertainment would shape the future of San Francisco. The Vigilance Committee of 1856 - James O'Meara - Chapter 2. Chapter II. Saturday Nov. 19, 1855, between 5 and 6 o'clock, the community was startled by the report that General Richardson, United States Marshal, had been shot dead by a gambler. The shooting occurred on the south side of Clay street, about midway between Montgomery and Leidesdorff streets.
The fatal shot was fired from a deringer pistol by Charles Cora. Cora was a gambler, yet he did not look the character. He was a low-sized, well-formed man; dressed in genteel manner, without display of jewelry or loudness; was reserved and quiet in his demeanor; and his manners and conversation were those of a refined gentleman. There were not many on Clay street, near the fatal scene, at that hour, but the discharge of Cora's pistol soon brought several to the spot.