Date: Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:28:16 -0500
From: Ted White <twhite8 at cox.net>
To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>
Subject: [WSFA] Re: Philcon
Reply-To: WSFA members <WSFAlist at KeithLynch.net>

Keith F. Lynch wrote:

>  I enjoyed the con.  I think most people there did, except the
>  dealers, who complained that few people were spending any money.
>
[...]
>
>  I intended to preregister at the con for next year, but on
>  discovering that the rates had gone up by sixteen percent -- this at
>  the height of the worst economy since the 1930s -- decided not to.
>  Even this year, attendance was way down.  As Mike mentioned, there
>  were only about 400 paid members.  Philcon survived the 1930s, but if
>  the committee can't find a way to cut costs, or even hold them
>  constant, it may not survive the current economic situation.

I dunno about the '30s, but I started attending Philcons in the '50s,
and attended them all for the next 20 or more years.  In those days they
were *much* smaller than they are now.  I expect if they had to they
could survive being that small (100 or less) again.

--Ted White