Past Present Future
Our January meeting was all about the new year! Magic Past, Present and Future!
Magic Chuck one of our junior members showed off his sleight of hand by vanishing sponge balls and made a Coke bottle vanish. Our other junior member Colin the Great connected three silks together and had a new twist using a Joker Tube with racecars. Our last junior magician was the Amazing Amanda had a shrinking wand and a color-changing scarf. Gary Hickok stretched a dollar bill, showed us his shrunken pants, chop sticks vanished, had a spinning fork and performed a three straw repeat trick that we had never seen before. Gregg Tobo, local pro performed his Thought Collector trick where after asking for information from different spectators, the answer met his sealed prediction. Glenn Proulx, our secretary, performed Card Warp using Jumbo Cards and The Immaculate Connection by Paul Harris. President Wendy Wylde had four envelopes selected. Three of them had a prediction sealed inside, which read Wizard. Wendy’s envelope said President! Bruce and Kitty Spangler showed us an antique Thayer champagne bottle trick made in 1923, which had amazing craftsmanship for the time. A woman’s ring was vanished and she was asked to sip from the bottle. The flavor was AWFUL. When the bottle was broken there would be a dead rat or guinea pig inside and attached to its collar was the missing woman’s ring! What a shock that would have been. Local pro magician, James Lopez vanished coins, and performed a mind reading card trick and announced that the Mile High Magicians will now be co-hosting the local, monthly, magic open mic night. Editor and local pro William Rader did his Psychometry, in which he can sense, energy from inanimate objects. He correctly guessed which spectator drew which picture. Past president Brad Montgomery had a chip hidden in a spectators hand and guessed which hand it was in every time! Our last local pro magician Mark Strivings, performed his own version of John Bannon’s Wait Until Dark trick. Our first meeting of the year was a blast.