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| − | The '''Outlanders''' (a.k.a. the '''Outlander Society''' or '''OS''') was a former [[Los Angeles]]-area [[fan club]] for members of [[LASFS]] who lived in the "outlands" of [[Los Angeles]], and thus found it difficult to make it to every meeting of [[LASFS]]. The organization was founded in October 1948 and the original eight members were [[Len Moffatt]], [[Rick Sneary]], [[Stan Woolston]], [[John Van Couvering]], [[Con Pederson]], [[Bill Elias]], [[Alan Hershey]] and [[Freddie Hershey]]. It met monthly.
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| − | The [[club]] had the reputation of being one of the more intellectual groups in [[fandom]], in large part because of the [[clubzine]], ''[[The Outlander]]''. ([[Art Rapp]] called it fandom's "most articulate and intellectual group".) Meetings were all-day sessions, but were not business meetings: there were no dues, officers, or bylaws. Members stayed connected between meetings by a continuing chain letter.
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| − | When the Outlanders were founded in 1948, some of them began using the slogan "[[South Gate in '58]]" as an [[interlineation]] or filler in their [[fanzines]] – [[South Gate]] being the town where their founder [[Rick Sneary]], a.k.a. "[[the Hermit of South Gate]]," lived. The idea was initially to promote an after 10-year reunion of the Outlanders, but eventually it became a successful [[Worldcon bid]]. The [[Solacon]] was held in a [[Los Angeles]] hotel which was ceded for the Labor Day weekend to the Mayor of South Gate by the Mayor of Los Angeles, as South Gate did not have a hotel large enough to host the event which drew fans in the hundreds.
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| − | A [[fanclub]] (formed October 1948) for people living outside the city limits of [[LA]]; [[Rick Sneary]]'s group. It met approximately monthly till mid-52. [[Sneary]], [[Moffatt]], [[Woolston]], [[Con Pederson|Pederson]], [[van Couvering]], and [[Rory Faulkner]] were important members. Thirteen issues of [[OO]] ''[[The Outlander]]'' were published, and the [[Third Westercon]] was produced.
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