Early Conventions

The first ten years of SF conventions:

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	128
	November 10, 1940	Phillycon 1940
1941	late Feb 1941	Boskone I	~25
	July 4-6, 1941	Denvention	~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
1944	Easter 1944	Eastercon
	May 28, 1944	The last Staplecon	9	San Francisco
	June 17-19, 1944	Michicon 4	23
	August 27, 1944	Dovercon	}
	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.

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