guardy was a family friend and a local printer.ss cards with my name on them. a local library was my biggest gig ever, about 100 kids attended in quakertown, pennsylvania. i wrote diary entries for each performance. may 30, 1975. tomorrow will be one of my last magic shows. i've lost interest with about three more shows to do. magic was fun, and profitable for some time. it's been a great hobby. i'm the last of all my friends in this art. i love that part. if my love for pro wrestling and magic summed up elementary school, it would be television that symbolized junior high school. holly comjunior high school, specifically, before we started calling them middle schools. it was a brand-new public school, nice and modern, with its own closed circuit television system, and a tv studio. and morning announcements were delivered from this tv studio. so i caught the tv bug. you know, i wanted to be a morning anchor, but i never made the cut. so one day, the school tv crew came the my gym class. they were filming a tv commercial for an upco