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Originally Posted by TCMA
Another great find! I've been adding all of these to my archive by the way  .
I have seen this gathering at my father's house referenced several times as the "first" convention. One such reference is in the book "The Card" though it says the convention was in 1969: |
Yeah, the 1969 West Coast convention at Jim Nowell's house was definitely before your dad's, and there had been several others (presumably smaller ones) that year, to judge by what Mike Bondarenko wrote in late 1969. Your dad's was certainly one of the first, but not the first.
Speaking of the West Coast convention, and since Leon mentioned Ed Broder as a Net54 member, here's a profile of him from the November-December 1971 Trader Speaks that references the 1969 West Coast convention as "the first-ever sports collector convention":
