Here is some information on magician Gerald Heaney
Heaney lived in
the small town
of
I have seen 8mm
movies of Heaney
performing. They
were made in the
50’s and 60’s.
he
appeared very
skilled in stage
manipulation
sleight of hand.
Heaney died in
the mid 1970’s.
I have been to
Heaney had a
mail order magic
company that he
had run out of
He also was a
close friend of
both famous
magician
Thurston and
Blackstone (Sr.)
Heaney had all
of Thurston’s
illusion show in
his barn. I had
known about this
when I was a
kid, because I
had read about
this in an old
magic magazine
from the 1940’s.
In addition, and
“old timer”
magician had
told me the
story as well. I
never got a
chance to go to
Last summer I
stopped in
I did know a magician who died several years ago, he saw Heaney when he was a kid, and considered him a good performer.
Hope this sheds some light on just “who” Heaney the Magician was.
There was
another magician
and escape
artist from
We also had a
magician who
lived way up
North and passed
away in the
70’s. The fellow
worked all the
big resorts when
they were
popular in the
40’s, 50’s, and
60’s. This
magician was a
close friend of
Houdini, and had
much of
Houdini’s milk
cans and escapes
stored in a semi
trailer up in
Eagle River,
WI.
I do know where
these items
went,
they are in the
Glen Gerard
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