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This item is a 6" X 9" piece of stationery from the Hollywood Knickerbocker Hotel in Hollywood California.The eleven-story Knickerbocker Hotel, now senior home Hollywood Knickerbocker Apartments, (1714 Ivar Ave, Los Angeles, CA) is one of the old historic Los Angeles Hotels that has seen notoriety and was the scene for some of Hollywood’s most famous dramatic moments.Harry Houdini (March 24, 1874 – October 31, 1926, born Erik Weisz later spelled Ehrich Weiss) was a Hungarian American magician and escapologist, stunt performer, actor and film producer. He also was a famous skeptic who set out to expose frauds purporting to be supernatural phenomena.Famed magician Harry Houdini had always been interested in the occult, so he and his wife made a deal that if he died before she did, he would try to contact her after his death. So, on Halloween of 1926, (the first anniversary of his death) Houdini's wife, Bess, conducted a séance on the roof of the Knickerbocker hotel. When Houdini failed to put in a ghostly appearance, she continued holding annual séances at the hotel for over a decade, without success.On Halloween 1936, Harry Houdini's widow held her tenth séance to contact the magician on the roof of the hotel.The top of the stationery has the name and address of the hotel in black. To the right of the hotel name at the top of the stationery and also at the bottom of the stationery there is what appears to be a burn marks.The stationery has been autographed on the front by Harry Houdini with a fountain pen in blue..............BOTH STATIONERY AND AUTOGRAPH ARE IN VERY GOOD CONDITION..............
