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Old 03-04-2016, 10:06 AM
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Originally Posted by trdcrdkid View Post
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":
Thanks for the info, I think I may have seen this one about the 1969 West Coast convention during some of my research but I lost track of it. Another piece to the puzzle .

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