FAB Magic Rocks — And I’m Broke!!

FAB Magic.

FAB Magic is but a stone’s throw from the famous showroom of Abbott’s Magic Company. Colon, Michigan, is a small town with a new Marathon Gas Station (with hot dogs that will knock your socks off) and the famous Magic Caf?. But unlike my hometown of Mystic Hollow, Michigan, it has two world-famous magic shops.

Rich and Cheryl Fisher have joined with the Abbott family to establish a new and improved magic store in the heart of The Magic Capital of the World. Not far from my favorite restaurants, is the graveyard and the final resting place of magicians such as Harry Blackstone, Karrell Fox, and others. Harry Blackstone, Jr. is memorialized by a wonderful Moore-esque statue in the center of the yard. He is actually buried in California.

But Colon is not dead and not about dead magicians. The addition of FAB Magic to the town has only increased the competition – always a good thing – for both Abbott’s and FAB to produce great magic. We benefit by their efforts to outdo the other with more quality and lower prices. Think Abbott’s isn’t concerned? Check out the mailing you received recently from Abbott’s proclaiming their dominance in the market and their long history in Colon. While not a direct attack on FAB, it is at best a veiled one.

The Fisher’s have offered only those effects that they are ready to produce. Their Die Box is exactly what you remember when you first bought the D. Robbin’s version of the die box. It’s not the Abbott’s Shenanigan Die Box…
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Very Sad News, Mary Blades Passes

Carlos and Mary Working — I Couldn’t Get Them to Look at the Camera.

We received very sad news from John Luka this evening.


Mary
Blades, devoted wife of Carlos Blades, and wonderful hostess of the
Garden City Magic Shop in Garden City, Michigan passed away in her
sleep last night.


I?ve written often about my admiration for Carlos and Mary. Their shop is the prototypical magic shop. The kind we all dream of owning one day. There was a stage in the back where they would feature the great lectures brought to Southeastern Michigan by John Luka.


Mary
was so warm and welcoming to everyone who came to the shop. She had a
smile that lit up the room and clearly cared about the people she met
at the shop and she was fond of telling me of how she and Carlos would
travel to help with Christian Missions out west.


She was an engaging woman and when she spoke with you, you felt you were the only one in the room.


She
was telling me just the other day how she was going to get one of
?those Dummy Books? to learn about the Internet and the computer so
that she could do genealogy research. She was so proud of Carlos and clearly loved him.


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