Holy Floor Plans
Floor plans for the venue of a proposed Worldcon or other traveling convention, as presented during its bid, and sacred to the smofs.
In Spirits of Things Past No. 3, Greg Rihn recalled:
Regarding the genesis of the term Holy Book of Floor Plans (also Sacred Book of Floor Plans). This term was coined by the late Ross Pavlac in respect to the Chicon IV Worldcon bid, and referred specifically to the large and impressive loose-leaf book of floor plans of the Chicago Hyatt Regency Downtown, which was loaned to the Bid Committee by the Hyatt Sales Department.
The sacredness of the Book was due not only to the largeness and impressiveness of the Book, but also to the fearsome indemnity the Hyatt intended to claim should it be lost or destroyed. All these things I know because Ross himself imparted them to me, at I believe, a bid party we held at Minicon in 1980.
It should also be noted that the Book of Floor Plans was secondary in importance to the Great Floor Plan Icon, a 6-foot-by-3-foot lighted display of such Holiness (not to mention weight and expense) that it never left the Hyatt premises. Nevertheless, we were able to reveal it to the awed masses at the Windycons held prior to the Worldcon, which were at the same Hyatt.
| Conrunning |
| This is a conrunning page. |
