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- From: jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com (Jim Mann)
- Newsgroups: rec.arts.sf.fandom
- Subject: Re: What really happened after Boskone 24 (was Re: Arisia vs. Boskone)
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 15:03:47 GMT
- Organization: Stratus Computer Inc, Marlboro MA
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- References: <1992Dec30.194328.5873@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
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- In article <1992Dec30.194328.5873@ryn.mro4.dec.com>
- anderson@allvax.enet.dec.com (Dave Anderson) writes:
- >
- > What a lot of people don't seem to realize is that after the
- 'Boskone from
- > Hell' the only alternative to cutting the size of the convention
- from about
- > 4500 to about 1500 was to not hold the convention at all! After
- the Sheraton
- > decided that they didn't want our business an extensive search for
- a new hotel
- > was done, starting in Boston and working outward. The only hotels
- we could
- > find that were willing to host the next year's Boskone were in
- Springfield (MA)
- > and in Hartford (CT), and both were much smaller than the Sheraton.
- I've never
- > seen the Hartford hotel myself, but the Springfield hotels would
- certainly be
- > seriously overcrowded with attendence around 2000 and arguably
- couldn't really
- > hold more than about 1500. So, regardless of any other
- considerations, Boskone
- > *had to* eliminate about 3000 attendees.
-
- The Hartford hotels were about the same size as those in Springfield,
- but were a bit farther apart (a block and a half instead of
- right across the street). In hindsight, it would have been really
- bad had we gone to Hartford, since one of the two hotels we used
- was torn down a year or two later, so we could probably have
- only held two Boskones there. (The demolition of the Hilton
- would have made a great program item though.)
-
- --
- Jim Mann
- Stratus Computer jmann@vineland.pubs.stratus.com
-
-