Whatever happened to Frankie Albano?

Thread originally posted on the Aeclectic Tarot Forum on 16 Nov 2003, and now archived in the Forum Library.

Logiatrix	16 Nov 2003
Does anybody know? I just got the Albano-Waite, and the LWB speaks of her (she is female, no?) mysterious disappearance with no further details. A search on the 'Net surfaced nothing. Has anybody heard/read of anything else about Frankie Albano? :eek:

Cerulean	16 Nov 2003
vanished. I think it's like the Sola Busca family...sometimes in tarot history, there's a brief appearance, than they vanish... Mari H.

Le_Corsair	16 Nov 2003
I actually got motivated in a small way one time, and began a search online for references to Frankie Albano. There is, apparently, an old rockabilly musician named Frankie Albano, don't know if this is the same person. I remember finding a Frankie Albano on Long Island, but never contacted him/her. I have to guess that Frankie is dead and left no heirs, since I can't imagine him/her not wanting to collect royalties from US Games on the Albano-Waite deck. Then again, Frankie may have had the true hippie spirit, and felt only contempt at the thought of profiting from the deck. Maybe he is Brother Francis in a Trappist monastery, and has taken a vow of poverty. Who knows? I'd like to know the answer, myself. Bob :THERM

Logiatrix	16 Nov 2003
Personally, I like the monk theory. :) Or maybe he/she has become very fundamentally, super-conservative-type religious, and prefers to have no connection to "The Devil's Picture Book." }) Or maybe he/she is in a remote part of the world, where his/her published work is not known...could that still happen? All the possibilities are so intriguing that the mystery actually becomes as much a part of the legacy as the cards do. Some questions are just not supposed to be answered, I suppose. ;)

Mystic Zyl	19 Nov 2003
Maybe Frankie and Jimmy Hoffa are poker buddies.

Lee	24 Nov 2003
Quote: Originally posted by Tauni Or maybe he/she has become very fundamentally, super-conservative-type religious, and prefers to have no connection to "The Devil's Picture Book.";) I think there's another artist that experienced this... Pamela Colman-Smith. She became a devout Catholic, and probably wanted to forget all about that Golden Dawn and tarot nonsense from her wild youth. :D -- Lee

Logiatrix	24 Nov 2003
Quote: Originally posted by Lee I think there's another artist that experienced this... Pamela Colman-Smith. She became a devout Catholic, and probably wanted to forget all about that Golden Dawn and tarot nonsense from her wild youth. :D -- Lee WOW! I didn't know that! This kinda stuff is so interesting... :)

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