Thayer Magic Manufacturing Company, Los Angeles, Spirito, 1932. The Spirito radio’s exterior appeared to offer cutting-edge technology in the 1930s. The inside, though, was completely empty apart from a hidden coil that allowed the voice of an assistant offstage to be broadcast as “the spirit.” Magicians played off the connections between science and the spirit world with their own devices such as Spirito. Thayer Magic, a company that produced equipment for magicians from 1907 to the 1930s, claimed “nothing supernatural for Spirito” apart from being “the master scientific marvel of the age!” The radio that tunes in on the mysterious unknown.

Today, we accomplished our main goal for returning home. Eight new windows were installed. A crew of 4-5 men showed up on time, went right to work and installed our replacement windows. The look nice, so nice in fact the few remaining windows now standout like sore thumbs. We’ll have to get their replacement scheduled ASAP. Watching them work was exhausting. So much so that it might takes a day or two to put things back the way they were.