Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 11:32:18 -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>

> kfl at KeithLynch.net 12/16/04 4:33:17 PM >>>
>"Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu> wrote:
>
>> A Google of Unicon "silver spring" gets this page:
>> <http://www.readersadvice.com/cons/con00.html> which
>has a list of
>> cons attended.
>
>> Unicon 1982 - Silver Spring, Sheraton Inn
>
>Thanks.  But since that page gets the locations of several
>Disclaves
>and other cons wrong, I don't put too much weight on it.

Ah, wasn't checking the other cons.  Now you've got me curious.

>
>> There's a bunch of references for Unicon at
>> <http://keithlynch.net/wsfa/journal/index/title.htm>
>
>I know.  That's a mirror of
>http://www.wsfa.org/journal/index/title.htm
>
>I mirror all wsfa.org pages at keithlynch.net/wsfa
>
>Steve Smith <sgs at aginc.net> wrote:
>
>> 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.)  A
>little
>> Googling shows it was in 1979.
>
>Yes, it's now called the Omni Shoreham.  Our July 20, 1979
>meeting at
>Unicon (tenth anniversary of the first moon landing!) would
>have been
>our last meeting in DC (assuming the 1983 Unicon wasn't in
>DC), except
>that it didn't get a quorum.
>
>> (Thanks, Keith, for putting the old WSFA Journals online.)
>
>You're welcome.  I think we now have the longest run of
>fanzines
>online.  (Not the largest number, however -- that honor is held
>by
>MT VOID, whose issues come out weekly.)  A year ago, I said
>I thought
>we'd have all the second series Journals online by the end of
>2004.
>We still might -- there are just five to go, one of which is nearly
>done -- but I always make current WSFA stuff a priority.
>
>> Most Unicons were at the Sheraton Silver Spring; a real pit
>of a
>> hotel if there ever was one.
>
>Wasn't there at least one at the Best Western at Tysons?

I do not believe there was ever a Virginia Unicon.  I'll ask Paul & Aly
Parsons, part of the long time Unicon crew of long ago.

>What year
>was that?  Thanks.
>
>> Of the local con hotels, only the Hostility House had worse
>> management.
>
>Just be glad we're not on the west coast.  If you like con hotel
>horror stories, see http://www.panix.com/~aahz/timecon.html

Fascinating.

mjw