Snowmass history: Do you believe in S’magic?
Award-winning magicians joined local entertainers in Snowmass
Aspen Historical Society Aspen Times Collection/Courtesy photo
“Three award-winning magicians from the Magic Castle in Los Angeles will be featured at The Tower in Snowmass Village on Sept. 19 in a Close-up Magic Cabaret,” the Aspen Times reported Aug. 29, 1985.
“John Carney, Michael Ammar and Michael Weber will join Doc Eason, resident magician, and Don Hooker, Tower house magician. Carney has been named 1985 Close-up Magician of the Year by the Academy of Magical Arts and Sciences and was a Magical Entertainer of the year finalist in 1985 and a Category of Card magic finalist in 1984.”
Snowmass history: Western tradition comes to the village
“A crowd of approximately 1500 people flocked to the mall at Snowmass-at-Aspen for Western Days,” The Snowmass Villager reported on August 8, 1968.

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