Jones, Lloyd E.: Meet the Boys of the Pacific Coast ©1934 Lloyd E. Jones, Pub. Walter Adrian, Portland, OR Softcover, saddle-stitched, 6x9", 48 pages

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Comments: A tribute to the magic clubs of the West Coast USA for the years 1933, 1934 with news and quite a few tricks.

Contents (from book):

2 Dedicated to Mrs. Beatrice Houdini: With B&W photo
3 President Fleming Demonstrating Rope Trick: photo with Richard Wilcox, Gerald Kosky, Caryl Fleming, Walter Adrian, and Rolland Hamblen
4 Group Photo: Pacific Coast Association of Magicians Convention Seattle, WA, 1933
5 Group Photo: Pacific Coast Association of Magicians Convention Oakland, CA, 1934
6 Foreword (Lloyd E. Jones)
7 Seattle, Washington: about Seattle Ring Number 59
8 Spokane, Washington: Spokane Mystic Club
9 Portland, Oregon: Portland Society of Magicians
10 Sacramento, California: Capital City Magic Circle
11 Oakland, California: Oakland Magic Circle, with Prof. El Tab, James Muir
12 San Francisco, California: Golden Gate Assembly Number 2. Jesse A. Mueller.
13 San Jose, California: Mystic Thirteen. Harry G. Shaw.
13 Cigarette In Pantomime: idea
14 Los Angeles, California: Five organizations
14 Southern California S.A.M.: T Page Wright
15 Los Magicos (Los Angeles): Caryl S. Fleming
16 The Mystic Twenty Seven (Los Angeles)
17 Magical Manufacturers
17 - Thayers
18 - Magic Art Company
18 - Hat Productions
19 The Psycho Card Test (Tony Taylor): card mentalism using carbon paper
20 The Bowman Blindfold (W.M. Bowman): Magician plays bridge despite being blindfolded
20 Combination Coin Move (John Busk): coin vanish and reappearance in pocket, etc.
21 A Problem in Color (James T. Stoppard): Red and Blue backed selections transpose
22 A Good Laugh (Captain Charles Howard): comedy torn paper
22 Torn and Restored Card: idea for better finish of the torn corner
22 Mutus, Nomen, Dedit, Cocis: Easier code formula
22 Balloons From the Hat: idea
22 Useful Bags: idea
23 The Intelligent Camera (Richard Wilcox): routine for your card box and card frame.
24 Transpo Flight (Lyle F. Laughlin): Card selection on floor transposes with a second selection
24A The Conventions, 1933, 1934
24A Seattle, Washington, 1933: summary
23C Oakland, California, 1934: summary
25 Photo: Lyle F. Laughlin - Carl-Lyle
26 Patter for the Afghan Bands (Douglas M. Kelley)
27 The Austini Guinea Pig Vanish (George Austin): idea for getting rid of the load
27 An Overlooked Accessory (Clarence Cain): uses for a new type of bandage
28 Tibetan Torture Chest (Ormond McGill): Presentation for Thayers (or similar) Modern Production Chest with a few modifications
30 Wheeler's Vanishing Alarm Clock (Earl Wheeler): for platform or stage, and how to build
31 Chinese Silk and Doll Production (Earl Wheeler): From two empty tubes a silk and then a doll are produced
32 Impromptu Match Effects (Maurice Mackall)
32 - Vanishing Matches: three matches vanish from hand to be found in previously empty box
32 - Vanishing Matches 2: six or more matches vanish one at a time from fingertips
33 Photo: Maurice Mackall
34 Poster: Lloyd Jones Presenting Seeing Things
35 Card and Slate Miracle: message on slate matches card selection
36 A New Stunt With Passe Bottles: for other magicians
36 Those Passe Bottles Again: production idea
36 Carbon Paper: idea
37 The Latest in Telephone Mysteries (Claude Burke): only worked in old phone exchanges!
37 The Spirit Handkerchief: idea for a finish
38 William and the Egg: Borrowed bill vanishes and is found inside an egg
39 Blackstar's Rope Release (Medrano Blackstar): Two ropes pass through the neck
40 Tom and the Turkey - An Illustrated Magical Story: a silk and changing box routine with lots of sight gags and a story
42 A One Man Mind Reading Act: a comedy mind reading in which the spectators read minds
43 N.R.A.: with a bang, a poster of Frankling D. Roosevelt changes to an NRA poster, and then doves are produced
44 Burlesque Mind Reading Act: a lot of name puns
46 Other Gags You May Use: more name puns
47 Life Begins at 8:40 (Walter Adrian): an addition prediction
48 Pantomime and a Mammoth Card (Walter Adrian): jumbo card revelation
48 Cut and Restored Rope: quick idea