Human Cannonball Size:20" x 25" The Prohibition Era lasted until

The Prohibition Era lasted until Dec

Pictorially

When the elevated highway opened

was "denuded of all its passenger cars

Human Cannonball Size:20" x 25" The Prohibition Era lasted until"Ladies and gentlemen, and children of all ages. You are about to watch an incredible, death defying feat like no other in the world two men shot out of a cannon at the same time!" After the ringmaster's words of hype came a flash, a puff of smoke and a deafening roar as Hugo Zacchini and his brother Mario were catapulted more than 150 feet through the air into a net. The first human cannonball, launched in 1877 at the Royal Aquarium in London, was a