Date: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 16:39:15 -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>

> omni at omniphile.com 3/14/2005 4:21:22 PM >>>
>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!  ;-)

I direct your attention to:
http://www.nesfa.org/fanzines/AppendixSiteSelectionVoting.html and
the results for 1986 (Atlanta), particularly second place.

mjw

"All lives are secret tapestries that swirl and sweep through the years
with souls and strivings as the colors, the threads.  And there may be
little knots of tangled meaning everywhere beneath the surface, tying
the colors and threads together, but the little knots aren't important
finally, only the sweep itself, the tapestry as a whole."

- Edward Whittemore, The Jerusalem Quartet