The Salt City Club

July 2019 IMPORTANT NOTE!

There will NOT be any regular meeting in July!

Our Comic-Con event served as our July activity, and Harris Solomon although the Officers will still be hard at work, the regular meeting will not be taking place. Enjoy your vacation. A monthly newsletter of the Harris A. Solomon Ring #74 See the next issue (August) for important in- International Brotherhood of Magicians formation about our next meeting! (the Salt City Magic Club) President: Ken Frehm See you in August! Vice President: David Jackman Secretary: David Hanselman Treasurer: Bruce Purdy Sgt. At Arms: Art Prest IBM Ring #74 meets at 7:30pm Notes: the Third Thursday of every month (Usually) This issue of the Wandogram is smaller than Please submit material for publication in the Wandogram to: usual, and a bit late going out. It’s been busy around [email protected] here. Thank you for your understanding. or by Snail Mail: Bruce Purdy Bruce Purdy P.O.Box 213 Thank you to all those who have paid your 2019/2020 Cayuga NY 13034-0213 dues. If you have not already done so, please mail your Questions? Call (315) 256-9095 check in today! Dues are $25 for most members, and $10 Submission deadline: for Senior Citizens. Make your check out to “IBM Ring 1st Thursday of the month 74” and mail to: Bruce Purdy www.saltcitymagicclub.com P.O.Box 213 Cayuga NY 13034 3 Challenges we faced, and how we Looking into my crystal Comic-Con Review can make this event even better ball, I see great things ahead for next year. With all the prospective the Salt City Magic Club! By Bruce Purdy members and interest in the club, we must also decide how to best Comic-Con is behind us, steer the club into the future. and was a great event. Not only did President Ken Frehm did it include the involvement of a lot a fantastic job coordinating our in- of our members, we even had Magi- volvement in the Comic-Con, and cians from other New York regions also M.C.d all four Stage shows. volunteer their time! Stage performers included Jimmy C, Theresa Marie (Barniak), Davis Special thanks to Jimmy C, Kilpatrick, Davis and Paul Jackman who came all the way from Roches- and myself. ter BOTH days to perform close-up New Local MAGIC as well as stage acts! Club Member The Parlour show was M.C.d and IBM Territorial Vice President by Ryan Wallace, (who also per- counter to open ! Mike Ihrig also came in from Roch- formed), and also featured Art Prest, ester on Saturday. Mike Stanley with Drew Yeldon, T.J. Yeldon (Stealing his lovely daughter Michelle, Jim time away from coordinating the T.J. Yeldon, Our newest member, the force be- Turner and Ryan Wallace all came entire event!), and the Wizarding hind Comic-Con, and a local entrepreneur, made an Time Master “Professor Tempus up from Ithaca. exciting announcement at our June meeting. Fugit” (My alter ego.) All together, we performed As most of you know, T.J owns “Larger Than four Stage shows, One Parlour show, T.J. did an amazing job and around fourteen hours of Close- coordinating the entire massive Life” comic book stores in Great Northern Mall and up Magic! Countless people were Comic-Con event. Somehow he at Destiny Mall (Formerly known as Carousel Mall.) entertained and exposed to the art managed to oversee the creation of T.J. announced that hid Desting Mall location will be of Magic. T-shirts, Postcard handouts Magic adding a section of Magic! merchandise and even a fabulous We also gained a LOT of roll-up banner for our club! He even In addition to stock merchandise, Having names, with contact information of preformed at our Parlour show. How opened dealer accounts, he can special order Magic people interested in joining our club, he managed to do all that revealed equipment and supplies for local Magicians as well. as well as a separate list of kids inter- that T.J. is actually a Super Hero in ested in joining a Junior Magic club! disguise! Drew Yeldon (Who did fabulous close-up at the booth as well as at the The officers are in the pro- Parlour show) will be the President cess of conducting a “post mortem” of this Junior club, and Art Prest will and review of what we did right - be the advisor / coordinator. and what we might have done better.

4 5 Learn & Grow Next meeting: Bruce Purdy Thursday, 15th August, 2019 6:30 ~ Fellowship Whilst I usually focus on LISTENING (especially Pod- 7:00 ~ Business meeting casts), this month I’d like to talk about WATCHING Magic! 7:30 ~ Magic Time! If you’re like me, you love art, and many acts are silent to to watch Magic acts of the past. So music I think you would find much many fabulous performers that are to enjoy! no longer with us, or early work of NO meeting in July! those who are huge today. Another collection: “Movie Magic”, includes digitised ver- I have enjoyed many sions of 8mm sound home mov- performances on YouTube of ies created from 1976 to 1981, , and so at Magic conventions - featuring many more. But did you know that many well-known performers in- Save the Date! there is an on-line archive of just cluding Daryl, Paul Harris, Paul th August this type of videos? Gertner, Johnny Ace Palmer, Abert Thu.15 Regular Meeting Goshman and Mike Skinner... to name but a few. I enjoyed a th September Chris Angel Sun.15 novel performance by “Domino” “RAW-The Mindfreak Unplugged” https://www.magicana.com Crouse Hinds Theatre in which Bob Little, dressed as a is just that! In the “Screening giant dove, produces tiny people! Room” there are hundreds of Where else can you see something video clips of Magicians (search- like that? able by name or other keywords) f you enjoy more modern The “Exhibitions” section I “shot for the screen” Magic acts, contains several entire collections and are on Facebook, you might of video clips including from : want to search Facebook for “CHAN-TATACHÁN” (eighteen “ ” There you’ll clips). This was a Television show Making Magic find interviews with current Magi- presented by Juan Tamariz, from cians and personal performances 1992 to 1993 and featured acts by of Illusions. recognisable Magicians from all over the world. It is, of course, in Old or new, happy watching! Spanish, but as Magic is a visual

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