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My Life as a Magician
My name is BILL COOMER, I live in Cape Girardeau, Missouri and I have been a Magician for 55 years. I became interested in magic at the age of eight. I am not sure exactly what prompted my interest, but I did have an uncle who did a few simple tricks. Also the local dime store had a paper backed book for fifty cents with all kinds of tricks in it. Most of them could be done with everyday objects that could be found around the house.
I lived in Heyworth, Illinois and about 12 miles to the north was Bloomington. There was a greeting card shop there which had a counter of magic tricks. The gentleman who worked there and demonstrated the tricks was named Roger Dixon. My dad owned a coal company and I worked for him after school and on saturdays for $1 per hour. I earned lots of money that way and spent quite a bit of it on magic tricks and books.
One of the books I bought I got from a friend of mine who was slightly interested in magic. I do not know where he got the book but when he told me that he would sell it to me I jumped at the opportunity. I paid him $13.00 for it. Back in 1954 $13.00 would buy 26 hamburgers. The book was called "Greater Magic," it was written by John Northern Hilliard. It is probably the greatest magic book ever written. It has over 1000 pages in it. In Greater Magic there is a chapter on the master of playing cards. It talks about the first person to print playing cards. They were first printed with wooden blocks and the same printer who printed playing cards was also the printer who printed bibles. Chapter two of Greater Magic is about card fanning. Card fanning is the art of spreading the cards in a fan to show the beautiful patterns on the back of the cards. A deck is not good for fanning unless the pattern on the back was printed all the way to the edge. In that chapter it mentions a gentleman named Goodlette Dodson. Dodson wrote, in 1935, a booklet entitled "Exhibition Card Fans". Keep that in mind, we will get back to it later.
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