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| − | Return With Us Now To Those Thrilling Days of Yester-Year - 1968 | + | #REDIRECT [[Return With Us Now#1968]] [[Category:redirect]] |
| − | (c) [[Dean Sweatman]] 2014
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| − | I have always intended to do this [[RSN]] but never expected it to be 46 years in the making.
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| − | It had been 17 years since the [[Nolacon]] and 7 years since the New Orleans [[Consolacon]]. The [[New Orleans Science Fiction Association]] was in its heyday. It had formed in June 1967 with 3 objectives:
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| − | 1) [[Bid]] New Orleans as the site for the 1973 World-con
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| − | 2) Bid [[NOSFA]] to host the [[DSC 6|1968 Deep South Con]].
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| − | 3) Organize the fragmented pockets of [[Fen]], [[Neo-fen]] and Proto-fen in the city under one banner to host the various [[Fannish]] events that would lead up to the [[World-con]] site selection vote for 1973.
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| − | The [[New Orleans in '73]] Bid was moving along and we had won the bid to host the [[DSC 6|1968 Deep South Con VI]] that [[John Guidry]], [[Don Markstein]], [[Rick Norwood]], and [[Justin Winston]] had presented at the previous [[DSC 5|(Atlanta, GA) DSC]].
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| − | We were a year old and had 10 to 20 members coming semi-regularly to the monthly meetings being held in members homes. In July we elected [[Don Walsh]] as our 1st President and had published 4 issues of ''[[Nola-Zine]]'' during the past year. In August we started to meet weekly to prepare for the con.
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| − | 19680823-25 Deep South Con VI - Down-Town Howard Johnson Motor Inn
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| − | Day 1
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| − | I took the Airport Express bus into [[New Orleans]] dropping me off 2 blocks east of the hotel. It was to early to pick up my con badge or check-in to our rooms so [[Bill Bruce]] from Baton Rogue, LA and I dropped our bags and went to the coffee shop in the next block from the hotel for breakfast and talk about ''[[Stranger in a Strange Land]]'' and all things [[fannish]]. Upon returning we met with the other con and [[NOSFA]] members that had arrived. [[Craig Shukas]], [[Irv Koch]] and I dumped our luggage into our room and started to roam the halls.
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| − | There weren't that many halls to roam as we were housed in one room. Reg was a small table just outside the door. The "[[Con-suite]]" was a common-room to the meeting floor to provide a table, some chairs, a desk, sofa and rest-rooms. The front of the room was set up for panels with a couple of dealers tables along the back wall.
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| − | Attending membership was 75 making it a crowed room. Member's rooms and the swimming pool / patio were close by and available for spill-over discussions when there weren't panels going on. For most of New Orleans Fandom this was their first con. I had traveled to Houston TX for a Comic-con prior to meet some friends from Denton, TX Fandom. Movies were shown by [[Justin Winston]] from his film collection in the evenings of Friday and Saturday.
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| − | Local author [[Dan Galouye]] (''Dark Universe, Simulacron-3'') was the [[GoH]]. Also present were [[Joseph Green]] (''The Loafers of Refuge'') NASA tech writer and family from FL (where we first met [[Rosie Green]] Now Lillian). Old Time Radio, Comics and Pulp dealer [[Roger Nelson]] had come down from [[Chicago, IL]], [[Ned Brooks]] VA, [[Irv Koch]] TN, [[JoAnne Burger]] from Houston TX - a [[femfan]] and head of the [[N3F Tape Bureau]] looking for OTR, Pulps and to record the con on tape, [[Glen Brock]], [[Joe Celko]] and [[Steve Hughes]] from Atlanta, [[Rick Norwood]], [[John Guidry]], [[Don Walsh]], [[Don Markstein]], [[Justin Winston]], [[Craig Sukas]], the rest from [[NOSFA]], and 40 or so others that have gotten lost in my memories.
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| − | Only about 10 hours were devoted to panels, 4 hours to film, and 2 hours for the banquet. Room parties as we know them today were not to be found as Bourbon Street was only 8 blocks away.
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| − | Day 2
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| − | [[Irv Koch]] presented a tape made by [[Janie Lamb]] bidding [[Knoxville, TN]] for the [[DSC 7|1969 DSC]]. He also proposed the formation of a Southern Confederation of Fen organization to help in keeping contacts made in the various cons, clubs and individuals in touch with each other.
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| − | [[Harry B. Moore]] ( chair [[Nolacon]]) dropped in for a few hours.
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| − | Saturday Night there was as great discussion held in the con-suite hosted by Dan and Joe ( talking about Writers and Southern Fandom of the late '40s and "50s as both had attended [[Nolacon]]) that broke up for a hamburger run about 3 am.
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| − | Day 3
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| − | Business meeting - The Atlanta bid for 1969 was dropped in favor of Knoxville with an announcement that they would bid for the [[DSC 8|1970 DSC]]. [[Irv Koch]]'s proposal was accepted for discussion and would be revisited at the [[DSC 7|1969 DSC]].
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| − | Banquet - Rubber chicken and a fine speech presented by [[Dan Galouye]].
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| − | The con ended about 3 pm with the usual round of "let's do it again next year". Those going on to [[Baycon (Worldcon)]] heading westward and the rest of us headed home basking in the after-glow of the Gathering of the Clan with dreams of Next Year.
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| − | Additions and / or Corrections requested
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| − | Discussion is invited and Previous installments of this and the "In For a Penny" series can be found online
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| − | As always permission is granted to the [[Contraflow]] and / or [[SFC]] for use of the above. Anyone else that so desperate as to want to use it or any of the other muttering I have posted can contact me off-list.
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