Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:32:35 -0500
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Balticon in 2006 - Hunt Valley Inn
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

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>>>> omni at omniphile.com 3/14/2005 3:19:30 PM >>>

snippage occurs

>Say!  Maybe fandom should just pool all our money and buy a hotel?  Then =
we
>could hold worldcons there all the time, as well as smaller cons, writing
>seminars and other events of interest...keep it booked year round just =
with
>fans, and live like we want to?  Maybe extend it into a chain so there =
are
>such hotels everywhere?  No more hassles for the hotel liaisons, by fans,
>for fans?

"The Tucker Hotel was based on a suggestion of Bob's, in 1952 when the
ChiCon II and its prices signalled the start of the Big Convention =
movement,
that fans simply build a hotel of their very own for holding conventions =
in,
moving it from one site to another as required.  A campaign arose to send
Bricks to Tucker for the construction of this edifice; Rich Elsberry,
denouncing this as a vile proish plot to get free bricks, recommended that =
BT
be sent straw with which to make bricks for himself.  A group of Anglofans
designed, and draftsman Bob Shaw drew up plans for, a Tucker Hotel; Walt
Willis and Chuck Harris located a fine site for it."
 * Fancyclopedia II, <http://www.sff.net/people/diccon/TANGO.HTM>

The print edition has actual plans.

mjw
"It's Eney's Fault."