Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 09:33:15 -0400
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> twhite8 at cox.net 8/23/04 6:13:00 PM >>>

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>De facto, the Worldcon (which was not yet so known) was
>the national
>convention until 1948, when it was held for the first time in
>Toronto.  But
>most Americans don't think of Canada as a foreign country, so
>the Worldcon
>remained a national con until it crossed the ocean for the first
>time in
>1957, as I described in a previous post.   Some fans did not
>want to "lose"
>the national con to another country, and fought it bitterly.
>Eventually
>they created the NASFiC.  I think the first was held in 1965, in
>Philadelphia, during the London Worldcon.   Now an entire
>bureaucracy
>surrounds NASFiC, parallel to that which envelopes the
>Worldcon.
>

According to the offical listing <http://wsfs.org/nasfic.html>, the
first NASFiC was in the 1975 in LA.  Blame LASFS?

Which is not to say there wasn't some sort of NASFiC like event in
1965.

mjw

>--Ted White
>