From: "Robert MacIntosh" <macbuccfo at msn.com>
To: WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net
Subject: [WSFA] Re: A DC hotels question
Date: Wed, 01 Nov 2006 11:22:38 -0500
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

>From: Michael Nelson <nelson_mr at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
>Subject: [WSFA] Re: A DC hotels question
>Date: Wed, 1 Nov 2006 08:09:39 -0800 (PST)
>
>--- Robert MacIntosh <macbuccfo at msn.com> wrote:
>
> > The bid for '92 included the Hilton, which about 1.5 miles further
> > down
> > Connecticut Ave. That hotel has the space for the "Main Tent"
> > functions,
> > allowing us to put dealers and art show in the Omni and Marriot (it
> > were a
> > Sheraton then). Of course, even then traffic at rush hour on
> > Connecticut
> > would have travel nearly impossible. Fortunately, the Sheraton got
> > greedy
> > and saved our collective back sides. Why? Because there was no way in
> > hell
> > it would have ever worked. We all went to MagiCon that year.
>
>So the DC in '92 bid was planning to put the art show
>and dealers' room in separate hotels.  Did they talk
>about where exhibits would go?  Was anyone thinking
>about creating a space for people to gather -- the
>ConCourse concept?
>
>Worldcons are like gypsy caravans -- camping someplace
>for a few days and then moving on.  I like the "central
>campfire" gathering spot idea that Noreascon 3 formalized
>back in 1989 as their ConCourse and wonder if the DC in
>'92 was thinking about that or hoping a "heart" for the
>1992 DC Worldcon would form naturally.
>
>And where would the con suite be placed if all the
>evening activities were going to move to the Hilton?
>Perhaps separate day and evening consuites?
>
>Interesting.
>
>Michael
>
And almost impossible to accomplish, as we began to realize when we started
to think about those items you happened to mention above. But at the moment
we were bidding and that was all we could see. As much as we hated the
Sheraton for destroying the bid, they did us a very big favor. If we have
beaten Orlando (a very large "If" BTW), fandom would still be beating us
about the head and shoulders for whatever convention we managed to cobble
together. Can you imagine 10 to 20 buses running about the hotels ferrying
fen from local to local? What were we thinking?

Bob MacIntosh
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