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Tyler_Magician Special user 509 Posts |
One that really fooled me was when I was walking past a magic shop at a flea market. The guy did the vansihing hank. He took off the TT, which I didn't know what it was then, and it was purple. He showed a man standing near him how he used the TT. I didn't believe him. This was when I was around 9 years old...
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ssucahyo Inner circle 1954 Posts |
Zombie ball, dancing skeleton and color changging cane.
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unilogo Veteran user Las Vegas , NV 359 Posts |
This is one I recall pretty good.
I used to live in a pretty messed up place in los angeles. Not compton..but pretty close.Anywho.....being it was such a poor nasty place(maybe I am making it sound to harsh .....) we would go swim at this community pool when it was hot. oh all the ghetto memories..hehehe.....I remember us eating 39cent burgers at mcdonalds and walking a couple miles to get there. I was happy...and that was incredible. Getting back to the point...... So one day we finish swimming and we head home when this 50 or so year old man approaches my family and a couple friends. I remember he did a couple of effects for us but ......the only one I clearly recall and sticks to my head is the guy would make coins disappear. Simple dissaperances got me dumbfounded! I remember the guy closing his hand...opening it and it was gone! It is auctually a beyond simple palm he showed me after begging him all the time. We saw em a couple of times. Yet another time he would swing his arm up and down and the coin would go into his skin. Well that's how I saw it as an infant. He would auctually just place it on the top of his head with one of the swings. It was INCREDIBLE....Once I did stop seeing him tho... I thought it was impossible to learn magic so I didn't get around to it. Then I remember the first time I was totally destroyed with an effect. It was the most impossible thing I had ever seen. It was .........another guy in that same neighborhood who guarded his secrets....well he was a real magician after all.What was the effect that freaked me out.....He was using the tenkai palm for tons of purposes.....disapperances , productions , and making them come out from other things like a plant. He had some cheesy "hand is faster than the eye patter"...I remember that too. Not his name tho. After that........I just thought I witnessed a miracle from the guy and something so incredible it would never be possible for another person to do. WEll....auctually just about every single magician can...haha. But it was a miracle at the time. HE cut and restored my shoelace....what?my shoelace....wow....it was just too strong. I will forever remember everything from the shoes I wore to the guy. Except for his name..bummer. Beautiful times....... oh yeah when I was like 5 I remember seeing a magician clown guy. But I remember him messing up alot..and that's it...he was probably a comedian.He...I cant remember. |
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Matt Graves Special user Huntsville, Alabama (USA) 504 Posts |
My main memory is of my Uncle David vanishing a coin and pulling it out of my ear. Then my Mom showed me the same trick, making the coin reappear in the microwave. When they told me how it worked, I almost didn't believe it. I did that trick in the talent show in first grade.
Then what caused me to get into magic seriously was Topas's act on the first World's Greatest Magic. That bit with the wands - and finishing by pulling an electric guitar out of nowhere - totally blew me away. |
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Matt Graves Special user Huntsville, Alabama (USA) 504 Posts |
My main memory is of my Uncle David vanishing a coin and pulling it out of my ear. Then my Mom showed me the same trick, making the coin reappear in the microwave. When they told me how it worked, I almost didn't believe it. I did that trick in the talent show in first grade.
Then what caused me to get into magic seriously was Topas's act on the first World's Greatest Magic. That bit with the wands - and finishing by pulling an electric guitar out of nowhere - totally blew me away. |
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Father Photius Grammar Host El Paso, TX (Formerly Amarillo) 17161 Posts |
The first magic I ever remember seeing and which led to my life long love of it was on a local Dallas TV show in the early 1950's came on twice a week for 15 min and was called Time for Magic. Starred a really skinny young magician who had the most beautiful woman you ever saw as his assistant. His ball up the sleeve routine where he claimed to have a special coat (which he forgot to wear) that had a tube in it, etc. was my favorite and still is. I stole most of that patter and used it in my cards up the sleeve routine years later. And 50 years later, Mark Wilson and Nani Darnell Wilson are still my all time favorites. (sorry, uncle harry).
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Edith Regular user Germany 131 Posts |
Mine was at some school performance and the magician made some bonbons with a dove pan. And they really tasted sooooo good. I still remember that taste. And probably that kinda got me started in magic until I got too much 'help' from my parents and grandparents...
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coupcoupdaddy Inner circle 2466 Posts |
It all began with the banana man
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NeoMagic Inner circle I have... 2017 Posts |
The boxer Muhammad Ali vanishing a silk handkerchief from his hands right before the presenter's eyes on a breakfast TV show!
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nucinud Inner circle New York, New York 1298 Posts |
Watching the Amazing Randi on Wonderamma.
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Greg Arce Inner circle 6732 Posts |
I was about twelve and already into magic, but I saw Derek Dingle do Card Warp on a Barbara Walters show and I was freaked out. I just thought it was the real thing. I also felt that way when Don Alan appeared on What's My Line? I remember my friends looking at me for an answer and I had none... to me the giant nut appeared under that hat and the two large loads also appeared the chop cup... I had no idea.
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Doug Arden Special user 886 Posts |
Torn & Restored Napkin.
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EsnRedshirt Special user Newark, CA 895 Posts |
Probably the old "got your nose!" trick with my granddad's thumb being my "nose". I think my earliest memory of 'magic' magic was a boxed set of magic for kids my parents got me at a very early age; I've been hooked ever since.
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freefallillusion1 Elite user Cincinnati, OH 446 Posts |
I remember being floored by Lance Burton's switch with the skull-faced villian in the sword fight routine, and equally blown away when Harry Backstone Jr. switched and became the Merlin character. I was already into magic then, but I only saw the Merlin routine that one time, and WOW!
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curtgunz Special user Only 99% of users have more than 784 Posts |
Great post topic.
A school show while I was in first grade. "What's Next" remember it is a jumbo card with one spot on its face and four spots on its back. Turn it over and there are three spots on its face and six spots on its back. Then he was going to "teach" us how to do it and how to make one. I felt like I was the only kid in the Caféteria as he showed the that there were really two spots on one side and five on the other side and it was his cleaver hand placement that made me assume that I saw one, then four, then three then six spots. I also remember the other worldly amazement I felt when I was in on the trick and then he turned the card one more time and there were about one and a half million spots on the back (that's how many those ten spots on the back seem to my six year old eyes, anyway). That year for Christmas and birtday all I wanted was "tons and bunches" of magic.
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Joe Russell Veteran user Buffalo NY 397 Posts |
Sponge Bunnies at my friends 6 year old B-day party, to bad I cant stand the trick now and would never do it.
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Jake Boone New user Cottage Grove, OR 78 Posts |
For me it was Doug Henning on the Muppet Show. I vaguely remember him taking apart one of the bigger monster characters and reassembling it in the wrong order. I have a far more vivid memory of his effect with a dancing handkerchief in a bottle (he performed that one in the "backstage" area of the show.
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Zac Vee Veteran user Traveling the world with 370 Posts |
I vividly remember when I was about 10 y/o a magician traveller who had a glass full of water and asked me to hold it , I did and when he waved a black hanky over it and said some strange magic phrases and then, the water in the glass changed to fired chick peas and he asked me to examine them and eat if I wanted I did eat some and past the glass around to my friends so they could take some magical chick peas and eat/ examine them. Till today I have noooo CLUE what went on and how he might have done it, all I could think is a possible switch but how when I had the glass in my hand filled with water. I never saw anything that magical done infront of me.
Zac
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lucas New user Victoria, Canada 30 Posts |
I remember being amazed by a local magician who performed the zig-zag at a children's festival. I now know how its done but I still marvel at is wonderful simplicity!
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DanielSteep Inner circle 1409 Posts |
I am also with lucas, Before I was into magic and performing it I remeber seeing the zig-zag performed by Claude Haggerty ( who used to be one of my favourite illusionists.)
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