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Friday, January 25, 2013

My Father Was A Magician

My father was a magician
Image: Aaron Garfield - Magician

I originally posted a video on November 22, 2004, as part of my early testing of my RSS 2.0 feed with a video enclosure.

Here's the description:
My father was a magician.

I found a bag of his tricks today and that brought back memories of the shows he performed. He started out doing a magic show for one of my birthday parties, then he did shows for friends, and ended up doing shows at local hospitals. Some of the tricks I found are pretty old.

I also found some index cards that listed which trick would go into which of his pockets.

He was organized, as am I.
Recently, one of the little kids from one of the parties contacted the family to say that they had a video from the party of my dad doing a magic trick.



We never had a video camera when I was little, so this is the only video I have of my dad, and he's doing a magic trick.

This is so cool. Since it's a silent movie, I couldn't resist adding some sound. Video purists can mute the audio,. ;-)

Here are some photos of the things I found:

Aaron Garfield doing magic
Image: Dad doing magic at the Children's Hospital

Aaron doing a magic show for kids and nuns

Aaron doing a magic show for kids and nuns 2
Images: Aaron doing a magic show for kids and nuns

Magic Trick
Image: Chinese Laundry Tickets Torn & Restored

Cup and Balls
Image: Cup and Balls

Magic performance list
Image: Magic performance list