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From his very first trick, magician Wayne Shifflett will wow you with wonder at Mingus Magic Shop in Reading, Pennsylvania.

"Cups and balls, it's a classic in magic," says Shifflett, owner of Mingus Magic Shop. "It took practice, but nobody knew how it was done, and that's what intrigued me."

LeRoy Mingus founded the shop in 1938. Shifflett walked in 30 years later, in 1968, at age 16.

"I wasn't sure about it. I just wanted to entertain," says Shifflett. "He showed me a magic trick, and it just blew me away."

Mingus quickly became his mentor in magic.

"He really looked after me, got me shows," says Shifflett.

He shares of photo of himself doing magic on "Al Alberts Showcase" from the mid-1970s. H

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