Author Archive: Dan Smith
An amazing showman, magician, and sword swallower; Johnny was a friend to many of us in the magic world and a frequent Gathering attendee and performer. More details are available in the New York Times and Washington Post obituaries.
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by Ann Goulet
Around 1974 Ray Goulet made a decision that it was time to sell the illusions and magic accumulated over a thirty year period that he was no longer using. He would keep only the magic for his club date act and maybe a few pieces to which he had become attached.
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by John Booth, Excerpt from Memoirs of a Magician’s Ghost
Armed with a Sony tape recorder, I returned to the Goulets’ magic center after a hiatus of several years. My first visit should have included note making. But, I was so inundated with details and a need to sort them out before I could describe them in writing that I promised to come back.
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This photo from the March, 1985 club meeting at Magic Art Studio is a Who’s Who of New England magic collectors: Chet Karkut, H. Adrian Smith, Ray Goulet, Dr. Grossman and many others.
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