![]() ![]() Cue dramatic music as Lamont flailed wildly about. The batten was then flown out lifting Lamont upside down his head far above the wooden stage below. A batten (horizontal scenery pipe) was lowered to the stage and Lamont’s ankles fastened securely. Lamont and Sam used this to great effect. The stage at Englewood High School had a fly system for hoisting scenery into the ceiling area. After the jacket was examined, 2 assistants secured Lamont strapping it tightly about him. The Incredible Lamont strolled confidently out onto the stage jacket in hand. The one thing I remember most was the upside down strait jacket escape. Sam Kent from The Foan Family Circus and The Wizard Magic Shop was the director of An Evening of Magic presented by the Mile High Magicians Society. This brings me back to the evening of April 24th, 1976. While I loved watching magic on The Ed Sullivan Show I was frankly unimpressed with the strait jacket escape. My exposure to the strait jacket escape was limited to magicians appearing on TV. The tradition of escaping from strait jackets was well established in 1976. ![]() This is particularly true in the field of escapes. When I ask which is better, 99 percent of the time they will tell me magic is better in person. Case in point, when I teach a magic workshop I ask the children how many of them have seen a magician perform on television or in person. Nowhere is this more true then in the world of magic. Most performers and I think many in the non-performing world already know that there can be huge difference between seeing something on television and seeing it in person. For me it would be another magic moment as it would mark my entry into the world of escapes. He hung upside down on the Pearl Street Mall, multiple times he hung upside down for the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon and most important to me, he did it for the Mile High Magicians Society April 24th, 1976.
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