Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 00:35:08 -0400
From: "Mike B." <yahoo at omniphile.com>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Past DC area cons, Re: [WSFA] Re: May 9th, 1969
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Michael Walsh wrote:

> 1975 or 76 ?? - Springcon.  Also at , I believe, the Sheraton Park.

It was definitely after 1975...I didn't start going to cons until the
year after Discon II, my first con was Disclave, and I was at Springcon.

There's a note in the July 1987 edition of the  WSFA Journal
(http://www.wsfa.org/journal/j87/7/index.htm), in the "Something from
the Vaults" section, which says it is probably from a meeting at Bill
Berg's, on or about November 19, 1976:

"Dolan selling Springcon [1]." with the footnote being: "Footnotes: 1: A
small convention actually held in the dead of winter."

That would mean that December 1976 is the earliest Springcon could have
been, and that would fit well enough with my memory of the time so I
think that's when it was.

I know it was in early December of some year about then...a friend and I
drove up from Va. Beach, going really fast (made it in under 3
hours...), and the reason we could go really fast (besides the 400 ci V8
in the Cougar XR-7 I drove at the time (that's 6.5 liters for the
younger crowd)) was that the CB reported that almost all the state
police were at a Christmas Party.  We certainly didn't see any...

Anyway, my memory is that it started on the 3rd of December, and in
1976, the 3rd of December was a Friday, so that would fit too.

-- Mike B.