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An Ohio Entrepreneur's Amazing Museum of Magic |
| Section: LIFE / PASTIMES |
| Author: Kym Kuenning |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 2/1/2006 |
| Size: 1,579 Words, 9,981 Characters |
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Coaxing a magician into giving up the secret to a good trick is much like uncovering the special ingredient to a good loaf of bread. Ken Klosterman of the Klosterman Baking Co., a Cincinnati-based firm, is not about to give up either.
"You just don't share the formula," he says.
Aside from being a dazzling man of the wand, Klosterman is the collector of one of the world's largest private collections of antique magic paraphernalia, known as the Salon de Magie, and an expert at assessing them for authenticity.
But at this early hour, he sips his coffee, stands at his ailing Macintosh and asks, "Do you know anything about computers?"
The Salon de Magie is buried 83 feet below Klosterman's 246-acre estate in a cavern just outside of Cincinnati, Ohio. It contains more than 20,00...
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... area and to let them go back to the people who can enjoy them.
As the door of the Seance Room reappears to allow its visitors free passage, it squeaks open--an effect that Klosterman promises was not added for dramatics. The crystal ball remains clear, his Macintosh is up and running, and his manuscript is nearly complete.
Or is that, too, an illusion? Or just ingenuity of the times?
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