Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 11:34:12 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: An infrequently asked question
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

> sgs at aginc.net 12/16/04 10:57:33 AM >>>
>Ted White wrote:
>>
>> Unicons were put on by the University of Maryland, College
>Park campus, and
>> I never heard of one in Virginia; most were held in Silver
>Spring, at the
>> same hotel where we had Capclave for several years; one
>was on-campus.
>>
>> --Ted White
>
>Unicon 2 was on- campus.  Unicon 1 was in a motel just off
>campus
>(attendence 30- some, if I remember correctly).  I find it scary,
>for
>some reason, that I attended every Unicon.

Yeah, that is scary...

>
>There was at least one Unicon in DC, at the Shoreham
>Americana (I dunno
>what they're calling it now; I think it's an Omni.)

That was the Unicon where the GoH was largely ignored in favor of Dan
O'Bannon and R. Cobb, ('Alien').  GoH was this fellow by the name of
Robert Bloch.

A brief mention of that Unicon here:
http://www.silverscreentest.com/koala/eucalyptus/december01.htm ,
scroll down to December 6.

>  A little
>Googling
>shows it was in 1979. (Thanks, Keith, for putting the old
>WSFA Journals
>online.)

Absolutely.  It's fascionating seeing so many names and thinking...
"Where are they now...?"  Or "Whatever happened to..."

>
>Bob Macintosh threw at least one poker party at the
>Shoreham; I don't
>think it was an official WSFA event.
>
>Most Unicons were at the Sheraton Silver Spring; a real pit of
>a hotel
>if there ever was one.  Of the local con hotels, only the
>Hostility
>House had worse management.  The current (Hilton)
>management is a great
>improvement.

Some of the attendees back then were a little under aged and over
alchoholed.  And in one year the con shared the hotel with, I believe,
Boy Scouts.  Yikes.

>
>--
>Steve Smith                                    sgs at aginc dot net
>Agincourt Computing                            http://www.aginc.net
>"Truth is stranger than fiction because fiction has to make
>sense."
>