KIRK KIRKHAM
                                I first met Kirk in about 1961 in Joe Berg's magic store in Hollywood, California.
                                He exuded an energy about  his interest and love of magic. I became friends with
                                him, his lovely wife Phyllis, and his three sons,  Chris, Ricky, and Kirk. I learned
                                of his huge collection of magic, both close-up and stage. He showed all of it to me.
                                He had to rent eight big garages to store his illusions.

                                He had obtained Harry Thurston's (Howard's brother) "Mysteries Of India" from
                               Will Rock.  He owned the only remaining Nicola Spike Cabinet in the world, Selbit's
                               Stretching A Woman, Through The Eye Of A Needle, plus a Blackstone Light Bulbs
                               Through A Girl, Thin Model Sawing, and dozens of other great masterpieces of magic.

                                He knew how to perform all of them and often did, on the Hollywood Palace Show,
                                Steve Allen's, You Asked For It, and many others!

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