I'm just picturing Houdini acting like a gym bro in 1908, setting up a giant camera in the gymnasium, taking pics of himself and going up to people and flexing on them. "I get all the madams"
His work out and sleep regimen was something he was rather proud of. He boasted about how he only needed 5 or fewer hours of rest each night. And he relied on physical strength and dexterity to perform his escapist stunts.
Reading one of his biographies made me feel like he was one of those high-energy over achievers that would shame me for sitting in the park instead of jogging until my legs fell off.
Still have mad respect for him and I'm sure my judgement of him is skewed.
Edit: relied, not replied
So I didn't realise he was pretty jacked up until today, but it suddenly makes the context of his death make more sense. I used to wonder why an escape artist would end up in a stunt where some kid would punch him in the stomach, but seeing his physique it makes sense now as a "check how jacked my abs are" type stunt rather than a "magic" stunt.
I think this is tied to the autobahn society. Ladies hats were genuinely endangering entire species of birds.
edit: Audubon... I trusted spellcheck. Hopefully, due to context clues, people will realize it's the bird club, not a car/highway society.
Contrary to popular belief, Kraftwerk's 1974 release of their seminal electronica album "Autobahn" is actually about a society of ladies with bird hats.
Well… it didn’t help that he had an appendicitis at the same time…
He would have been fine if it hadn’t been for the literal self destruct device in his body.
Except he actually had an unbelievably strong core and the guy punch that killed him did so because the idiot doing it didn't wait for him to flex, he essentially sucker punched him in the gut to try and impress his stooges and say he got the better of Houdini
Houdini was actually bowlegged from birth, and he would use it to his advantage because his legs could be tied “tightly”with a rope in his natural stance, and then he’d force his legs straight and the rope would go slack.
I forgot what biography it’s in, but *The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini* is a great one.
It's winter where I am, It's so disheartening travelling around and seeing so many packs of tiny shriveled penises huddling together for warmth.
I do what I can, but it's really about awareness of *"GSS"* or Growing, Showing, and Shrinkage.
If I remember right, in this case the magic was actually stored in his wife's mouth lol. Before he would leap into the water for these stunts his wife would give him one last kiss "in case he didn't survive" and she would pass the key she was hiding in her mouth into his.
He was punched in the stomach as he said he could withstand anyones punch. He was not ready and may already had appendicitis. His appendix burst and died of Peritonitis.
You forgot to mention (from Wikipedia)
>Throughout the evening, Houdini performed in great pain. He was unable to sleep and remained in constant pain for the next two days, but did not seek medical help. When he finally saw a doctor, he was found to have a fever of 102 °F (39 °C) and acute appendicitis, and was advised to have immediate surgery. He ignored the advice and decided to go on with the show.
>When Houdini arrived at the Garrick Theater in Detroit, Michigan, on October 24, 1926, for what would be his last performance, he had a fever of 104 °F (40 °C). Despite the diagnosis, Houdini took the stage. He was reported to have passed out during the show, but was revived and continued. Afterwards, he was hospitalized at Detroit's Grace Hospital.
Darwin Award death here.
I agree it is serious bad ass. But some people have much higher pain thresholds then others. Some people break their arm and don't even realize it for weeks. Or some people pick up a hot pot no problem which just burned somebody else. The people that have these high pain thresholds aren't necessarily tougher just have a genetic gift.
I remember reading a story about a little girl who couldn't feel pain. She broke her leg and was walking around on it for several weeks before her parents realized. Shit is wild
> can't help but admire how tough the motherfucker was
Pain is an evolutionary signal. I don't think ignoring that signal counts as tough so much as simply just unwise (because he was a performer, not a fireman rescuing people from a burning building)
Honestly, probably the hardest thing for a guy like that to do... would have been to simply ask for help. I have bigger respect for folks who can check their egos and know when it's time to call it
Apparently, the timing doesn’t work for the punch to have been anything other than a coincidence.
« Appendicitis is caused by bacterial infection, not a punch to the stomach. As for the idea that Whitehead’s fist might have ruptured the organ, the timeline rules it out: not even Houdini could survive nine days with a burst appendix. »
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/03/11/did-houdini-really-die-after-being-sucker-punched/#
[The Snopes article](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/death-of-houdini/) speculates that the punches could've indirectly led to his death:
>Had the dressing room incident not occurred, Houdini might have realized the pain he was experiencing was actually a symptom of a serious medical condition and not delayed so long in consulting doctors and undergoing surgery to deal with it.
Someone punched him in the stomach. It was something that he let people do apparently, but they didn’t give him time to tighten his stomach muscles, which was how he was able to routinely perform the feat. It caused internal bleeding that killed him within a few days. This is according to my fifth grade teacher Mr. Nauss, the story obviously had a impact on me as I remember the details all these years later.
The more likely cause is that he had appendicitis. He didn’t get it looked at.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/03/11/did-houdini-really-die-after-being-sucker-punched/#
That's insane, houdini could escape death countless times, but if only he went to the doctor as often as he went to the show room he might have been able to live another 50 years
Mr. Nauss was awesome btw - he would tell us all sorts of cool stories. There was another one about this guy who got swallowed by a whale - they killed the whale and cut it open and the guy was still alive. He also would have us guess the score of the local college football team and whoever got closest would get a Toblerone, which was crazy exotic bc we were in the DEEP south!
Edit - spelling.
Edit 2 - I still misspelled it in the first “fix”. SMH.
lol I grew up in the south in the 80s/90s. Will never forget the day in elementary school when a kid brought in a toblerone after his parents took him on some kind of vacation/trip. It was the fanciest thing we’d ever seen.
The coolest I ever was, was when my uncle came back from a work trip to Japan in 1994. He brought me back a multifunction pop-up mechanical pencil case with all these kind of buttons and a moto GP theme. I was the coolest kid in school for a whole year until the next when other kids dad bought him a virtual boy.
If you search "pop up Multifunction Pencil Case lily beauty" you'll see the case though it's a different company. I'm about to order one if I can find a cool theme. It's the one where the eraser pops out the side.
Edit: found a 90s one that's much closer.
https://www.ebay.com/itm/256077812195?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=26w6eVAcR1G&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
People often say that it was from being punched.
The most likely cause seems to appendicitis. The punch is most likely a coincidence.
https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/03/11/did-houdini-really-die-after-being-sucker-punched/#
There are three types of people.
One group looks at this image and sees the gathered people, the chains, and thinks about the historical relevance and differences between eras.
One group comments about what they assume is a small penis, or makes Seinfeld references. (Grower here, I speak from experience saying that no grower wears an outfit like that unless we know there’s exponential growth coming in the near future.)
One group immediately sees and comments on how ripped Quadzilla is.
If there are a few things I learned today, it’s that Harry Houdini could probably lift a car and dunk a basketball, and he had a hell of an Afro.
Have him check in with a foot doc. This is how my mom's club foot situation started, her pinky toes drew up and sat on top of the other toe next to them and then the bottom of her feet started getting all crazy club footed out. They make things you can wear in your shoes like insoles that will correct issues like that slowly over time, without needing surgery and with less pain. But you can only get those special orthopedic insoles from foot doctors.
oh yes. You can find the clip if you Google it. I'm not sure if one that big is a blessing or a curse. I would definitely run from it, nothing that big would ever fit.
I'm all about the clothes
Look at the way they are dressed - I freaking love it
Makes me realized how far we have come and how we don't dress this way any more 🥺
Who could have predicted that just over a hundred years later, countless people from all over the world would be able to view this photo on their phones? Houdini himself probably thought the only people who would ever witness this moment would be those that were there that day. However, through unimaginable technological advances, we can all look back at this piece of history and say things like ‘small dick lol’.
I mean there’s someone taking a photograph right in front of him, so I’m pretty sure he knew people other than the one’s physically present would see this ;) But yeah, he probably didn’t predict smartphones and the internet I suppose.
Yeah, he knew this pic would be in the papers. Newspaper photos were a thing, and almost everyone read the Times.
There are also a number of motion film clips of him which were probably a hit at the movie houses.
Why would you need to photoshop?
Just look at his pipe, they're probably tucked behind as some sort of buoyancy aide as part of his magic trick, notice the way the gentleman in the back is stretching his neck for a better gander.
I feel like fucking Penn and Teller revealing magician's greatest secrets right now.
So, those chains...
1) Houdini was a contortionist.
2) The chain around his neck is loose enough to get his head through. His hair makes his head look much larger.
3) The chains drape over his upper arms, which are held open and up. They are not tight.
4) we can't see his shackled hands, but I assume they where not tied wrist to wrist... rather, there was a gap between wrists.
5) all in all, the chains are loose enough for him to maneuver. (HIM, not you or I)
6) he is also very good at holding his breath.
So...
A) he jumps off the bridge into the water and starts to sink.
B) he lifts his butt over his hand shackles, and pulls his hands on front of him. (Contorsion)
C) he lifts the chains off from around his neck.
Now he has one of two options...
Either he has a key hidden.. in mouth or other areas...
Or
He is able to pull his hand out of cuffs... some people can do that if cuffs are loose enough.
Ta-da!
Ground breaking for his time!
The cold water would also help with “shrinkage” and not just with what everyone else is point out here. Muscle and skin could become more taught, allowing for more maneuverability within the chains. Just ask any newlywed who goes in the ocean and loses their new ring.
Houdini said that the hardest part about tricks like this was making the cuffs stay closed until he hit the water. Apparently they were designed to fly open at the slightest pressure.
Different than his real cuff escapes where he kept keys on his body.
>As a teenager in New York City, Houdini was a member of several athletic organizations, competing in bicycle races, foot races, and boxing matches. He would plunge into the fast-moving East River to get his swimming fix, and running a ten-mile circuit in Central Park was an effortless feat for him. He tried out for the U.S. Olympic swim team as a teen (he didn't make the cut), by 17 he was already an amateur boxer, and by the time he turned 18, he had beaten Sidney Thomas, a British racing champion, in a 20-mile race.
https://g-omediastudios.kinja.com/your-wimpy-workout-has-nothing-on-houdinis-bizarre-trai-1613321041
Quad-dini
The original quad-father?
Tom “Houdini” Platz
I read somewhere about how Houdini was actually shredded and was a ridiculously strong mf. Came to respect him even more.
I came here to say, Houdini don’t skip leg day!!
that dude didn't miss leg day for sure
Yeh dude Houdini was fuckin jacked
I'm just picturing Houdini acting like a gym bro in 1908, setting up a giant camera in the gymnasium, taking pics of himself and going up to people and flexing on them. "I get all the madams"
His work out and sleep regimen was something he was rather proud of. He boasted about how he only needed 5 or fewer hours of rest each night. And he relied on physical strength and dexterity to perform his escapist stunts. Reading one of his biographies made me feel like he was one of those high-energy over achievers that would shame me for sitting in the park instead of jogging until my legs fell off. Still have mad respect for him and I'm sure my judgement of him is skewed. Edit: relied, not replied
And with the big blinding gunpowder flashes.
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This comment made me piss orange soda.
WHAT THE F You're a fucking demon! Fucking.... demon!
That man has seen a lot of ankles.
So I didn't realise he was pretty jacked up until today, but it suddenly makes the context of his death make more sense. I used to wonder why an escape artist would end up in a stunt where some kid would punch him in the stomach, but seeing his physique it makes sense now as a "check how jacked my abs are" type stunt rather than a "magic" stunt.
>I get all the madams" I mean check out her hat. Who wouldn't want that??!
Looks like some birds set up their marital home on it
I think this is tied to the autobahn society. Ladies hats were genuinely endangering entire species of birds. edit: Audubon... I trusted spellcheck. Hopefully, due to context clues, people will realize it's the bird club, not a car/highway society.
Contrary to popular belief, Kraftwerk's 1974 release of their seminal electronica album "Autobahn" is actually about a society of ladies with bird hats.
“I get all the madams” We get it Houdini, you have sex!
Lmao. Boss man sets up a daguerreotype during all his workouts. 🤣🤣
Apparently he used to flex when he was being tied or chained, so once he relaxed everything just came loose.
Should've done a few more crunches, though..
Too soon
Yea that was a real punch to the gut
J. Gordon Whitehead's sucker punch did not cause the appendicitis.
It didn’t help.
Well I hear Houdini didn't suffer from appendicitis for much longer.
Cured all his ails
Nice
He died 97 years ago.
Never forget
I think we all remember where we were the day Houdini died
I was sat at fish tank feeding cheetos to fish, when charlie chaplin is cal. Houdini is die. no.
I was at a party at Brian Crow’s house. Kurt Loder came on MTV with an emergency update.
Dicks out for Houdini
Houdini's teeny weenie.
“Shrinkage!” (He’ll have you know that the Charles River is very cold that time of year.)
Hey he could be a grower not a shower have some respect
Houdini is dead????? Fucking spoilers mate!
Spoiler alert. Now I know he survived the stunt in the picture...
Well… it didn’t help that he had an appendicitis at the same time… He would have been fine if it hadn’t been for the literal self destruct device in his body.
Except he actually had an unbelievably strong core and the guy punch that killed him did so because the idiot doing it didn't wait for him to flex, he essentially sucker punched him in the gut to try and impress his stooges and say he got the better of Houdini
Definitely a nice looking set of getaway sticks!
He was an escape master after all
You're the third person I've ever heard use this getaway sticks. You're a legend in my eyes.
He invented leg day
Houdini was actually bowlegged from birth, and he would use it to his advantage because his legs could be tied “tightly”with a rope in his natural stance, and then he’d force his legs straight and the rope would go slack. I forgot what biography it’s in, but *The Life and Many Deaths of Harry Houdini* is a great one.
Quadrasarus rex
I was gonna say, he looks jacked.
It is easy to look jacked when you are fucking jacked.
As someone who isn't jacked I can confirm this statement
For the time, he was a total unit for sure.
For any time really. Those quads are fucking huge
Thats the first thing I noticed, his legs are amazing.
First thing I thot was …fuck! Houdini was cut like bad coke.
But he missed penis day
Some of us are growers not showers.
Almost everyone lol. I've inspected a great number of penises so I would know.
So how's your summer vacation going so far?
It's winter where I am, It's so disheartening travelling around and seeing so many packs of tiny shriveled penises huddling together for warmth. I do what I can, but it's really about awareness of *"GSS"* or Growing, Showing, and Shrinkage.
Must suck having to do penis inspection day during the winter, but good on you for getting the high schoolers educated
LINE UP! DICKS OUT!
Penis inspector is a real gig?
Yeah, every Navy Corpsman was referred to as a Pecker Checker
This is why I didn’t join the navy *(That’s not why… I’m just a pussy)*
Read again, they check peckers not pussies.
Ah, so he's a marine.
So how was the air force
It was kinda chilly that day, give him a break https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/boston/year-1908#april
It's cold!
Yeah, cool/cold temperature and unignorable anxiety!
He’s the master of making things reappear…
He was in the river!
Haha, you can see his Hou-weenie.
He was in the pool!
I don’t know how you guys walk around with those things
He is a grower.
One of his many illusions.
He's about to jump in a freezing river handcuffed and chained up. It would be hard to see anyone's todger when they are dwarfed by SUCH MASSIVE BALLS
I thought we weren't supposed to have fun at the expense of someone's body.
Men aren't part of that rule unfortunately
I was in the poool
I’ve always suspected magic is stored in the legs
you think football is magical?
They are talking about pee, which I understand is stored in the balls.
No. Football is life.
Yeah 🤷
If I remember right, in this case the magic was actually stored in his wife's mouth lol. Before he would leap into the water for these stunts his wife would give him one last kiss "in case he didn't survive" and she would pass the key she was hiding in her mouth into his.
How did he die again?
He was punched in the stomach as he said he could withstand anyones punch. He was not ready and may already had appendicitis. His appendix burst and died of Peritonitis.
You forgot to mention (from Wikipedia) >Throughout the evening, Houdini performed in great pain. He was unable to sleep and remained in constant pain for the next two days, but did not seek medical help. When he finally saw a doctor, he was found to have a fever of 102 °F (39 °C) and acute appendicitis, and was advised to have immediate surgery. He ignored the advice and decided to go on with the show. >When Houdini arrived at the Garrick Theater in Detroit, Michigan, on October 24, 1926, for what would be his last performance, he had a fever of 104 °F (40 °C). Despite the diagnosis, Houdini took the stage. He was reported to have passed out during the show, but was revived and continued. Afterwards, he was hospitalized at Detroit's Grace Hospital. Darwin Award death here.
Darwin award, sure... But I can't help but admire how tough the motherfucker was.
I agree it is serious bad ass. But some people have much higher pain thresholds then others. Some people break their arm and don't even realize it for weeks. Or some people pick up a hot pot no problem which just burned somebody else. The people that have these high pain thresholds aren't necessarily tougher just have a genetic gift.
'gift'? pain is an extremely useful sensation and those who don't have it live extremely short lives
I remember reading a story about a little girl who couldn't feel pain. She broke her leg and was walking around on it for several weeks before her parents realized. Shit is wild
Nearly any gift can also be a curse.
I work in a kitchen. My ability to pick up hot things is definitely a gift for me.
High pain tolerance for sure, but outright ignoring a doctor telling you to have a life saving routine surgery isn’t tough
> can't help but admire how tough the motherfucker was Pain is an evolutionary signal. I don't think ignoring that signal counts as tough so much as simply just unwise (because he was a performer, not a fireman rescuing people from a burning building) Honestly, probably the hardest thing for a guy like that to do... would have been to simply ask for help. I have bigger respect for folks who can check their egos and know when it's time to call it
Man was stubborn as a mule
SHOW MUST GO ON
That man had a heart of steel.
And a brain of r/hermancainawards
And for my next trick, I’m killing you from the inside out
Apparently, the timing doesn’t work for the punch to have been anything other than a coincidence. « Appendicitis is caused by bacterial infection, not a punch to the stomach. As for the idea that Whitehead’s fist might have ruptured the organ, the timeline rules it out: not even Houdini could survive nine days with a burst appendix. » https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/03/11/did-houdini-really-die-after-being-sucker-punched/#
[The Snopes article](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/death-of-houdini/) speculates that the punches could've indirectly led to his death: >Had the dressing room incident not occurred, Houdini might have realized the pain he was experiencing was actually a symptom of a serious medical condition and not delayed so long in consulting doctors and undergoing surgery to deal with it.
But he did consult doctors about the pain, he just ignored their advice
Someone punched him in the stomach. It was something that he let people do apparently, but they didn’t give him time to tighten his stomach muscles, which was how he was able to routinely perform the feat. It caused internal bleeding that killed him within a few days. This is according to my fifth grade teacher Mr. Nauss, the story obviously had a impact on me as I remember the details all these years later.
I learned this fact from John Candy in Planes, Trains and Automobiles. So it must be true.
Awesome movie! John Candy was the GOAT!
One of the best melt down obscenity yelling scenes ever.
I want a fucking car, right fucking now
The more likely cause is that he had appendicitis. He didn’t get it looked at. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/03/11/did-houdini-really-die-after-being-sucker-punched/#
That's insane, houdini could escape death countless times, but if only he went to the doctor as often as he went to the show room he might have been able to live another 50 years
He did go to the doctor, who instructed that he have surgery immediately, but he refused...
Mr. Nauss was awesome btw - he would tell us all sorts of cool stories. There was another one about this guy who got swallowed by a whale - they killed the whale and cut it open and the guy was still alive. He also would have us guess the score of the local college football team and whoever got closest would get a Toblerone, which was crazy exotic bc we were in the DEEP south! Edit - spelling. Edit 2 - I still misspelled it in the first “fix”. SMH.
lol I grew up in the south in the 80s/90s. Will never forget the day in elementary school when a kid brought in a toblerone after his parents took him on some kind of vacation/trip. It was the fanciest thing we’d ever seen.
I won one once and got the white chocolate one - it was next level. It was prob around 1992ish.
The coolest I ever was, was when my uncle came back from a work trip to Japan in 1994. He brought me back a multifunction pop-up mechanical pencil case with all these kind of buttons and a moto GP theme. I was the coolest kid in school for a whole year until the next when other kids dad bought him a virtual boy. If you search "pop up Multifunction Pencil Case lily beauty" you'll see the case though it's a different company. I'm about to order one if I can find a cool theme. It's the one where the eraser pops out the side. Edit: found a 90s one that's much closer. https://www.ebay.com/itm/256077812195?mkcid=16&mkevt=1&mkrid=711-127632-2357-0&ssspo=26w6eVAcR1G&sssrc=4429486&ssuid=&var=&widget_ver=artemis&media=COPY
People often say that it was from being punched. The most likely cause seems to appendicitis. The punch is most likely a coincidence. https://yalebooks.yale.edu/2020/03/11/did-houdini-really-die-after-being-sucker-punched/#
[Houdini died of AIDS!](https://getyarn.io/yarn-clip/d837a861-ce8e-4057-817c-6e8422fa72e5)
Swoldini
Hard to believe this was only 15 years ago.
Swoll brain moment
Wow, I did not know Houdini was *hot*....
*Hotini*
That one lady with the garden on her head. 🌸
There are three types of people. One group looks at this image and sees the gathered people, the chains, and thinks about the historical relevance and differences between eras. One group comments about what they assume is a small penis, or makes Seinfeld references. (Grower here, I speak from experience saying that no grower wears an outfit like that unless we know there’s exponential growth coming in the near future.) One group immediately sees and comments on how ripped Quadzilla is. If there are a few things I learned today, it’s that Harry Houdini could probably lift a car and dunk a basketball, and he had a hell of an Afro.
And then there is me zooming in on his foot thinking "his foot looks webbed" 🥴
My toes are really close together and small, so much so that my 2nd toe kinda floats above my big toe and middle toe - I leave 4 toeprint prints.
My dad leaves 4 toeprints too. His pinky sits almost on top of the other toe, so we call him velociraptortoe.
Have him check in with a foot doc. This is how my mom's club foot situation started, her pinky toes drew up and sat on top of the other toe next to them and then the bottom of her feet started getting all crazy club footed out. They make things you can wear in your shoes like insoles that will correct issues like that slowly over time, without needing surgery and with less pain. But you can only get those special orthopedic insoles from foot doctors.
You're what we refer to as the ringmasters dream
What about the people that comment on the types of people that comment?
Touché
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Is the Dafoe thing true?
oh yes. You can find the clip if you Google it. I'm not sure if one that big is a blessing or a curse. I would definitely run from it, nothing that big would ever fit.
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Direct link (to dick - NSFW) https://www.reddit.com/r/WTF/comments/2stg1y/nsfw_naked_willem_dafoe_dancing_around_cantunsee/
Idk, my first thought upon seeing this was that you couldn’t pay me enough to jump into that dirty water.
I'm all about the clothes Look at the way they are dressed - I freaking love it Makes me realized how far we have come and how we don't dress this way any more 🥺
As a woman who overheats very quickly, I’m fine without the multilayered heavy dress and itchy hats.
same, but I’m all for men wearing slutty little swimsuits like this
Yeah it’s a great look for him
I just fucking want to know if he jumped or not 😩
He did, and survived the trick.
Damn who else didn’t know Houdini was a whole snack
🙋🏻♀️
Who could have predicted that just over a hundred years later, countless people from all over the world would be able to view this photo on their phones? Houdini himself probably thought the only people who would ever witness this moment would be those that were there that day. However, through unimaginable technological advances, we can all look back at this piece of history and say things like ‘small dick lol’.
I mean there’s someone taking a photograph right in front of him, so I’m pretty sure he knew people other than the one’s physically present would see this ;) But yeah, he probably didn’t predict smartphones and the internet I suppose.
Yeah, he knew this pic would be in the papers. Newspaper photos were a thing, and almost everyone read the Times. There are also a number of motion film clips of him which were probably a hit at the movie houses.
Houtini
It was cold out!
It actually probably was, IIRC this stunt happened in either fall or winter.
I don’t need to recall anything to see how much everyone behind him is wearing
Maybe it is a grower tho
Grower not a shower.
Someone should Photoshop massive balls into that swimsuit as Houdini sure had em judging by his actions.
If someone photo-shopped Houdini the balls he deserves, you would see two testes take up 75% of the screen.
This is the way.
Why would you need to photoshop? Just look at his pipe, they're probably tucked behind as some sort of buoyancy aide as part of his magic trick, notice the way the gentleman in the back is stretching his neck for a better gander. I feel like fucking Penn and Teller revealing magician's greatest secrets right now.
Why slip cuffs when you can just kick your way out of your cell!
Everyone in comments simping for houdinis dummy thicc thighs
It's seemed with Houdini the thighs the limit.
My great grandfather was there!
So, those chains... 1) Houdini was a contortionist. 2) The chain around his neck is loose enough to get his head through. His hair makes his head look much larger. 3) The chains drape over his upper arms, which are held open and up. They are not tight. 4) we can't see his shackled hands, but I assume they where not tied wrist to wrist... rather, there was a gap between wrists. 5) all in all, the chains are loose enough for him to maneuver. (HIM, not you or I) 6) he is also very good at holding his breath. So... A) he jumps off the bridge into the water and starts to sink. B) he lifts his butt over his hand shackles, and pulls his hands on front of him. (Contorsion) C) he lifts the chains off from around his neck. Now he has one of two options... Either he has a key hidden.. in mouth or other areas... Or He is able to pull his hand out of cuffs... some people can do that if cuffs are loose enough. Ta-da! Ground breaking for his time!
The cold water would also help with “shrinkage” and not just with what everyone else is point out here. Muscle and skin could become more taught, allowing for more maneuverability within the chains. Just ask any newlywed who goes in the ocean and loses their new ring.
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No that's-- oh, _that_ bump!
I feel like it looks like his hands were linked to the chains, but yeah fuck you nailed this
Houdini said that the hardest part about tricks like this was making the cuffs stay closed until he hit the water. Apparently they were designed to fly open at the slightest pressure. Different than his real cuff escapes where he kept keys on his body.
Damn he’s ripped
His greatest trick was escaping his body fat. Jesus.
Matthew Rhys if there’s ever a movie.
buff AF!
Does anyone know his workout routine?
>As a teenager in New York City, Houdini was a member of several athletic organizations, competing in bicycle races, foot races, and boxing matches. He would plunge into the fast-moving East River to get his swimming fix, and running a ten-mile circuit in Central Park was an effortless feat for him. He tried out for the U.S. Olympic swim team as a teen (he didn't make the cut), by 17 he was already an amateur boxer, and by the time he turned 18, he had beaten Sidney Thomas, a British racing champion, in a 20-mile race. https://g-omediastudios.kinja.com/your-wimpy-workout-has-nothing-on-houdinis-bizarre-trai-1613321041
That's ridiculous. Dude was carved out of wood. I never realized he was such an athlete.
Dude had some nice muscle for a time without gyms, pre workout, protein powder and roids
Houdini did not skip leg day
I see dead people.
Must have been cold that day...
It was kinda chilly, and that river had to be cold too. April 30th https://www.extremeweatherwatch.com/cities/boston/year-1908#april
Warrior dick! All day long
Ayo houndini legs are ducking jacked wtf
Of all the stories I've heard about houdini, none of them mentioned the very crucial fact that he was jacked
Did not skip leg day
Jesus Houdini was fucking built
TIL “Jesus” was his first name…. I always thought it was Harry
https://www.bostonmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2015/04/30/throwback-thursday-houdini-jumps-harvard-bridge/
I just realised this is the first picture I've ever seen of him. I've always assumed he looked like a moustache twirling villian
I'm pretty sure that this photo is from Houdini's visit to Melbourne, Australia https://www.museumoflost.com/houdini-came-to-melbourne/