Today is the birthday of Al Flosso (Albert Levinson, 1895-1976). This legendary magician got his start playing in vaudeville and at Coney Island, thus his stage name “The Coney Island Fakir”. (The English word for cotton candy is “floss”, hence the other part of his professional name). The trick he is most associated with is […]
SOURCE: Trav S.D. at 08:28AM on October 10, 2013