Magic Get Together History

Lester Lake & Disecto	The First Get Together The great depression was in full swing during 1934 and in September the two Abbott partners, Percy Abbott and Recil Bordner, decided to have an open house on Saturday, Sept 15, 1934. Eighty magicians, mostly from the midwest, attended the event which included a two hour magic show with Percy Abbotts wife Gladys supplying backup music on the piano. After the show (which was closed to the public), a free lunch was served to the attending Magicians and the Abbotts Magic shop had garnered $88 in sales for the day, making it a financial success. Thus the first Magic Get Together was born.
By Any Other Name It was at the 1936 Get Together that Lester Lake referred to Colon as the "Magic Capital of the World". And why not? After all, it was the home of the Great Blackstone, the home of Abbotts, and the setting for the annual Get Togethers. The phrase caught on and after the Get Together the Colon Express wrote "Abbott’s original made magic is supplied to magicians in all parts of the world, and through the activities of the Abbott Magic Novelty Company, Colon, Michigan is recognized as "The Magic Capital of the World".	Magicians arriving in Colon in 1947
Mark Wilson & Nani Darnell	A Cast of Thousands The list of performers and lecturers at the Get Together span the decades of magic. Names like Harry Blackstone Sr. & Jr., Harlan Tarbell, Jeff McBride, Dai Vernon, Mac King, Mark Wilson, Neil Foster, Harry Lorayne, and Lance Burton are only a small sampling of the many wonderful talents that have graced the Get Together. When you are at the Magic Get Together, you are experiencing history in the making first hand!

Duke Stern said Colon is not a one horse town... Guess he was right!

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