Ditto

Ditto, founded in 1988 is a small, friendly, fanzine-fan convention held in the fall, ditto is named for the best-known brand of spirit duplicator.

Thus, maintains Dick Smith, who once worked in a building that had housed that company, when not beginning a sentence, the name of the con ought to be spelled in lowercase, matching the duplicator's expired trademark.

Ditto moves around to different locations as chosen by the Ditto Masters.

Con	Date & Location	Organized by	Notes
Ditto 1	1988 Toronto	Bob Webber, Taral, Mike Glicksohn, Alan Rosenthal, Catherine Crockett, et al.
Ditto 2	1989 San Francisco	Patty Peters & Gary Mattingly
Ditto 3	1990 Chicago	Dick & Leah Zeldes Smith
Ditto 4	October 18-20, 1991 Virginia Beach	Cathy Doyle & Kip Williams
Ditto V	October 23-24, 1992 Cincinnati	Bill Bowers, Pat & Roger Sims and the Cincinnati Fantasy Group	in conjunction with Octocon 29
Ditto 6	1993 Cambridge, MA	Bob Webber & Sarah Prince
Ditto 7	1994 Ann Arbor	Leslie Smith & Ken Josenhans
Ditto 8	November 3-5, 1995 Seattle	Alan Rosenthal & Janice Murray
Ditto 9	1996 El Paso	Richard Brandt & Michelle Lyons
Ditto 10	Oct 24-26, 1997 Cincinnati	Pat & Roger Sims, Bill Bowers, and Bill Cavin and the Cincinnati Fantasy Group	in conjunction with Octocon 34
Ditto 11	1998 Nov 6-8, Newport, RI	Priscilla Olson, Mark Olson, Bob Webber and George Flynn
Ditto 12	1999 Minneapolis	Karen Cooper and Minn-Stf	in conjuction with Fallcon
Ditto 13	2000 Dallas	Cris & Neil Kaden
Ditto 14	Oct 12-14, 2001 Bloomington, IL	Dick & Leah Zeldes Smith, Bob & Fern Tucker, Henry & Letha Welch	Held jointly with FanHistoriCon 11
Ditto 15	2002 Toronto	Murray Moore, Colin Hinz, Catherine Crockett & friends
Ditto 16	Oct. 10 - 13, 2003 Eugene, Oregon	Alan Rosenthal, Loren MacGregor and Janice Murray
Ditto 17	October 8-10, 2004 Orlando, Florida	Pat & Roger Sims
Ditto 18	October 14-16, 2005 Milwaukee, Wisconsin	Henry & Letha Welch, Trinlay Khadro, Henry Osier, Greg Rihn, Georgie Schnobrich and Dick & Leah Zeldes Smith
Ditto 19	2007 Mendocino County California	Alan Rosenthal	AKA ArtCon

Art Widner reports:

I was totally gobsmakt, gabberflasted & flatterd all to hell that 30 people came from all over the world to the most hard to get to (Panama City was easy) wild Mendocino Coast to help me celebrate. & they brot 15 bottles of single malt in the bargain. I didnt count, but somebody told me. In spite of my warning "No presents but yr presence" some of the bottles were presents. Thanx to Ian Sorenson & Yvonne Rowse from Scotland; I hope the chilly summer fog made them feel at home. & the 3 from Toronto, 2 from Detroit, & the usual suspex from Seatl & the Barea. Not to mention all my cool gchiln; Missy all the way from France, & the Tuckerized baby offn Mt. Baker..... Ive had sevral xcuses from various fen since, wch may b flattery, but i acept that they really wantd to b there but cdnt. Alan Rosenthal did a great job organizing it & i hav no complaints.

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