Author Archive: Dan Smith

An Inside Look at Ray Goulet’s Mini Magic Museum

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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A Mini-Museum Trip Through Magic History

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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Flashback: NEMCA Members, 1985

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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