Sunday, June 16, 2024

Inside the Hulme Hippodrome

This video takes you inside the abandoned Hippodrome in Hulme, England, where Houdini performed in February 1909. Here's hoping it can be saved.


Music Hall and Theatre Review,  February 19, 1909.

For more on the theater and the effort to save it, check out the Save Hulme Hippodrome website.

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 16, 2024 at 1:23 PM

    Wonderful history and tour, if not sometimes sad to see the condition it is in now. The same fate and (sometimes successful) attempts to save/preserve these classic venues has been happening across the U.S. as well.

    Diego Domingo

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  2. AnonymousJune 16, 2024 at 2:20 PM

    This hippodrome was not on the same scale as the NY Hippodrome correct? It appears quite smaller.

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    1. John CoxJune 16, 2024 at 3:49 PM

      Much smaller. But the NY Hippodrome and this Hippodrome were not connected in any way. There were many "Hippodromes" that used the name in the way we'd use "arena."

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  3. Leo HeviaJune 16, 2024 at 4:54 PM

    The Milk Can and the straitjacket for this 1909 appearance in Hulme. Then again in Charlottesville 1924 for that lecture. The bread and butter material never got old.

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