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This is 613 Cherry Street in Milwaukee, where young Ehrich Weiss lived with his family before becoming Harry Houdini. The tenement-house neighborhood as shown here is virtually unchanged from Houdini's day, in the mid-1880s.
Houdini's house was one of the first to be demolished, but it was just like all the rest: clapboard, shingle roof, multi-family, sketchy heat.
Coming up, we'll publish more never-before-seen pictures and documents from Houdini's forgotten years in Milwaukee - including a unique, hitherto unheard-of document detailing the early life of Houdini's father, Rabbi M.S. Weiss, Ph.D., LLD.
From that car in the background with fins, this photo looks to be sometime in the early to mid 1950s.
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