From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon
Date: Tue, 24 Aug 2004 11:35:41 -0400
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 24, 2004 9:33 AM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: 2007 Worldcon

> > twhite8 at cox.net 8/23/04 6:13:00 PM >>>
>
> [deletion occurs]
>
> >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.

Yup.  I was in London, but many of my NYC friends went to Philadelphia.

--Ted White