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Abbott's Get Together is a long-running convention for magicians in the United States and around the world, which is held each year in Colon, Michigan. It was founded in 1937 by Percy Abbott and his business partner, Recil Bordner. The Get Together is well known within the magician industry as an annual event to gather and share information ...
Percy Abbott (May 3, 1886 – August 26, 1960) was an Australian magician and magic dealer who founded Abbott's Magic Novelty Company in Colon, Michigan.Abbott's business was once the largest manufacturer and retailer of magic tricks and stage illusions in the world.
Colon is a village in St. Joseph County in the U.S. state of Michigan.The population was 1,173 at the 2010 census.The village is located within Colon Township.It is known as "The Magic Capital of the World", as it is the home of the Abbott Magic Company, the site of the annual Abbott's Magic Get-Together, and the former home and burial site of the famed stage magician Harry Blackstone, Sr.
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It was near Colon, Michigan, where he had a brief stint as co-owner of the Blackstone Magic Company. His partner in the business – which lasted only 18 months – was an Australian magician named Percy Abbott. After Blackstone and Abbott dissolved the company, Abbott, five years later, restarted his own magic manufacturing business in Colon.
He served three years in Korea and Germany. Once he had finished his military service he moved to Colon, Michigan, where he built illusions and demonstrated magic for Abbott's Magic Company. Mullica then moved to Atlanta, Georgia, where he attended bartending school. In 1976, he opened his own nightclub called The Tom-Foolery Magic Bar Theater. [5]
For several years, Fox wrote the "FOX-TALES" column in TOPS magazine, which was run by the Abbott Magic & Novelty Company. [5] During the 1993 Get-Together, Fox gave a tour of Colon's Cemetery, filled with legendary magicians that have passed. This tradition has been carried on by Al The Only [6] of Hawaii. [7]