Early Conventions

The first ten years of SF conventions:

Date		Convention	Attendance
1936	October 22	First Convention in Philadelphia later called the First Eastern.	10-20
1937	January 3	Other First Convention in Leeds, UK	~20
	February 21	Second Eastern in New York	30-40
	October 30	Third Eastern Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia
1938	April 10	Second British Convention (aka Necronomicon)
	May 29	Newark Convention aka Fourth Eastern aka First National	>100
	October 17	Philadelphia Conference	> 2 dozen
1939		Third British Convention in London
	July 4	NyCon I the first Worldcon	150-200
	Fall	Philcon 1939
		OSA Pow-Wow	Oklahoma state convention
1940	April	Third Chicago Conference	4
	Sept 1-2	Chicon	128
	November 10	Phillycon 1940
1941	late Feb	Boskone I	~ 25
	July 4-6	Denvention	~100
	September 20-21	Bombcon	13
	November 16	1941 Michiconference
1942	Feb 22	Boskone II	25
	September 27	1942 Michiconference	~25
	November 29	Hastings S-F Conference	v. small, possibly a drinking party
		Pacificon Jr.
1943	Feb 28	Boskone III	14
	Spring	Midgicon in Chicago	10?
	Spring	Live Oak Conference	3
	Easter	Midvention
	May 16	The first Staplecon in San Francisco	~12
	Summer	MeCon in Rockland, ME	3
	mid	Mainecon Jr somewhere in Maine	2
	"mid"	Schenectacon	2-4
	October 30	1943 Michiconference	22
	November 21	The second Staplecon in San Francisco
	"around the end"	Fancon
1944	Easter	Eastercon
	May 28	The last Staplecon in San Francisco	9
	June 17-19	Michicon 4	23
	August 27	Dovercon	11
	October 7-9	Little Chicon	"small"
1945	February 3-4	Boskone IV	5
	July 7-8	1945 Michiconference	15-20
	September 2	First New England SF Conference AKA Boskone V	9
1946	March 3	FPWESFC
	August 30-September 1	Pacificon I	130
	October 27	Phillycon 1946

See the Fancyclopedia 2 article on Conventions.

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