Early Conventions

The first ten years of SF conventions:

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

See the Fancyclopedia 2 article on Conventions.

---

Fanhistory

This is a fanhistory page. Please add more detail.