Midwestcon 5

Midwestcon 5, also known as the 5th Indian Lake Convention, was held May 22-23, 1954, at the Hotel Ingalls in Bellafontaine, Ohio. The committee was Doc Barrett, Don Ford, Lou Tabakow, Stan Skirvin, and Roy Lavender.

This was the convention with the famous door-breaking incident.

Attendees included John Millard, Bill Grant, Bill's mother — Mrs. Grant, Ken Hall and Gerald A. Steward from Toronto; Roy and DeeDee Lavender, Doc and Evelyn Barrett and Don Ford from Ohio; Bob Bloch and Phyllis Economou from Wisconsin; Evelyn Gold, Isaac Asimov and Marty Greenberg from New York; and Norm Browne.

Buck Coulson recalled in Mimosa 13:

The convention was spread over two hotels; we went to the Ingalls because it was cheaper; it was something like $1.50 per night. There was a reason for this, of course; even in those days, that was a cheap room. The bed was okay, but there was no attached bathroom. There was, in fact, one bathroom per floor, with tub and toilet. If someone actually took a bath, everyone else on that floor held themselves in or hunted another floor. Our room did have a laundry tub, however. Juanita commented that this was all right for the males, but uncomfortable for females. One year the hotel manager caught a bat in the lobby, and Noreen Falasca convinced him to take it outside and let it go. You don't have entertainments like that these days.

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