Human Cannonball Size:11" x 14" which first opened in 1911

which first opened in 1911 in Upper Manhattan

Even jadded New Yorkers might have done a double take on this rainy night in Times Square with a towering "Edge of Doom" sign nearby

" was an express passenger train on the New York Central Railroad from 1902 to 1967

" It will be a place to have a banquet or reception

patted each other on the back

Human Cannonball Size:11" x 14" which first opened in 1911"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