Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:21:22 -0500
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
From: "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Balticon in 2006 - Hunt Valley Inn
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

At 03:32 PM 3/14/05 -0500, Michael Walsh wrote:
>>>>> omni at omniphile.com 3/14/2005 3:19:30 PM >>>
>
>snippage occurs

And a good thing too!

>>Say!  Maybe fandom should just pool all our money and buy a hotel?  Then =

>"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.

That's not a bad idea, really...

Seriously!  Put the hotel on a cruise ship and dock it in cities as needed.
 That would let you hold cons on both the west coast and east coast, as
well as much of the great lakes region over time.  You could also do
seagoing cons that go to places like Bermuda for a week...maybe even meet
AE449!  ;-)

-- Mike B.

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