Date: Thu, 2 Jun 2005 08:11:46 -0700 (PDT)
From: N Lynch <sfbookfan at yahoo.com>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Fandom at the near beginning
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at WSFA.org>

--- "Mike B." <omni at omniphile.com> wrote:
> I'm also not noticing anyone who is very
> overweight...was that typical of
> the population at the time?

Pretty much, as refined sugar wasn't put in
everything, people mostly cooked at home and kids were
unscheduled in their events.  There was TV and radio,
but not all the media we have today to keep the butt
glued to a chair.   Portions were smaller and people
walked a lot more.

> Also, where are the kids?  Everyone appears to be
> 20-something or older.

Those *were* the kids.  Fandom was a new thing and
people hadn't grown up in it to be second and third
generation.   The people attracted to it were in their
teens and twenties.  The authors tended to be older,
but fans often weren't.

Nicki

"The man who enters a library is in the best society this world affords; the good and the great welcome him, surround him, and humbly ask to be allowed to become his servants."  -Andrew Carnegie
=====
MIMOSA web site: http://www.jophan.org/mimosa

__________________________________