From: "Ted White" <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: "WSFA members" <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School
Date: Wed, 30 Mar 2005 18:59:25 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Walsh" <MJW at press.jhu.edu>
To: <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 30, 2005 6:51 PM
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Old School

[...]
>
> Which brings to mind one of the "problems" with knowing the past.  When
> I started reading this stuff - 1963/1964 - it had been less than 30
> years since Amazing had been founded.  It was possible to read widely,
> to know most of what Murray Leinster or E E Smith or H. B. Fyfe or..
> or...  had written.  We're now close to 80 years since that first issue
> of Amazing; a lot of fiction under that bridge, so to speak.

AMAZING's first issue was published in the spring of 1926.   "1963/1964"
was almost *40* years later.   But next year will mark the 80th
anniversary -- I wonder if a magazine of that name will be around celebrate
it.   (I edited the 50th Anniversary issue.)

--Ted White