Berkley-Oakland in 1957
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Berkley-Oakland in 1957 was a bid to host the 1957 Worldcon in Berkley or Oakland. The Nycon II journal had carried advertisements for London in 1957 from its first issue and Los Angeles in 1957 from its second, but as Ron Ellik explained, there had been:
an ad in the Con Booklet, placed by the Chesley Donovan group, saying that 'Los Angeles' was withdrawing in favor of London. E. E. Evans stood up and declared that this looked like LASFS was doing such, while LASFS wanted Berkeley to get it next year[1] .
Len Moffatt added that:
Mr. Evans was mistaken. A member of the CDS announced the above-mentioned ad at a LASFS meeting and no one objected to it. Officially, LASFS had not gone on record in favor of either site. Unofficially, there were – and are – a goodly number of LASFS members favoring London in '57 and South Gate in '58'[2].
In the end Tony Boucher made the bid for Oakland-Berkeley, and Ted Carnell bid for London. Evans, Ben Jason and 'Greenberg'[3] seconded Berkeley, and E. E. Smith, Larry Shaw and Dick Wilson seconded London[4]. The vote was 203 for London and 65 for Berkley-Oakland[5].
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- ↑ Science Fiction Parade #2 (September 1956).
- ↑ Ibid.
- ↑ Presumably Marty Greenberg.
- ↑ Ibid, Science Fiction Parade.
- ↑ Fantasy Times #255 (September 1956).
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