Day: August 5, 2022
Abbott’s Magic Get Together 2022
We had tickets to the Friday show at the Abbott Magic Get Together and while the event has some of the best magicians in the world during their convention (IE Lance Burton, Mac King), we wanted to see the Friday show because it was an old fashion magic spook show. Starting way back during the Great Depression, magicians would do a magic show before the midnight showing of a B rated horror flick. The magic show always concluded with a black out, where all the lights in the theatre go out and spooks of all manner begin running about the theatre.
The magicians doing the show were world famous magicians John Bundy and Morgan, and it was the first time there was a spook show at Abbotts since World War 2 when Bill Neff did a show in a huge tent.
A great time was had by all. Continue reading “Abbott’s Magic Get Together 2022”
Colon Historical Museum 2022
While at the Abbott Magic Get Together we visited the Colon Historical Museum which has many exhibits that are not magical related. One of our favorites is the printing press exhibit which shows all the work that had to be done to create even a single page of newspaper. Once the page was created, the letters were melted down and reused later.
The museum is run by Joe Ganger who we have known for many years and during the Get Together he dresses up as Harry Blackstone Sr and is available at the museum to help anyone who might have questions about the exhibits. Most of the interest during magic week is for magic of course, but we thought we would document some of the other exhibits that you will find here.
