Jules Lenier Lounge

Jules Lenier, a friend and master magician died late January or early February, 2007.
Sitting outside the entrance to the Magic Castle, he'd smoke endless cigarettes. He was such a fixture there, that a plaque was made and posted above his bench on the right side
of the doors.
I went there on the evening of his memorial service at Forest Lawn, where the Magician's Breaking of the Wand ritual was performed. For magicians, it is as moving as TAPS played over a soldier's grave.
The valets and Emilio, the main bartender, instantly told me about the electrical phenomena that had occurred on the evening of Jule's death.
First, the entrance lights went out, eventually coming back on in strange sequences and patterns that had never happened before.
Also, the lights underneath the three stool bar in Irma the Ghosts room, and another of Jule's spots, burned out, welding the electric socket so they weren't able to replace or repair it.
They eventually had to replace the entire wire and sockets.
The light burned out only at Jule's seat, the one on the furthest right.
Again, on the night that he died.
The story goes that he knew he was dying so he took himself to the hospital. He sat outside, smoked all his cigarettes, then admitted himself.
An unopened pack of his special brand of cigarettes, NEW YORK, were found inside the Castle in an area secured for smoking. Have you ever heard of those? Me neither.
So, it wouldn't be too easy for someone to find the brand and place them there.
He and I spoke about dying.
We made an agreement that the first one to go should try to reach the survivor, and that the survivor should PAY ATTENTION!
I took several photos that night, after the memorial. Here are three of them.