From: "Ernest Lilley" <elilley at mindspring.com> To: "'WSFA members'" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA, deep into the past Date: Wed, 9 Jun 2004 07:40:03 -0400 Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> I like the idea of Sunday meetings. There's something wrong with the assumption of fandom, which I've seen in a several regions, that members have no other social life. It may be true, but I think institutionalizing it isn't the boon it's supposed to be. Ernest -----Original Message----- From: Michael Walsh [mailto:MJW at press.jhu.edu] Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 6:24 PM To: WSFAlist at WSFA.org Subject: [WSFA] Re: WSFA, deep into the past >twhite8 at cox.net 6/8/04 6:18:21 PM >----- Original Message ----- >From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> >To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org> >Sent: Tuesday, June 08, 2004 6:01 PM >Subject: [WSFA] WSFA, deep into the past > >[...] >> >> The most interesting factoid is that WSFA met on 1st, 3rd, & >5th >> Sundays, 8pm, at the Transportation Building, 17th & H. >Sundays? >> Gack. > >WSFA met on Sundays throughout the '50s and into the '60s. >It changed to >Fridays some time during my eleven-year stint in NYC. It was >Fridays when >I came back in 1970. Also Fridays in 1968 or 1969 when I discovered the club mjw > >--Ted White >