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On this page we would like to share memories of CASFS' past. To contribute please contact us at history@casfs.org Ken St. Andre Prehistory:Phoenix science fiction fandom existed for at least ten years before CASFS began, and managed to put on nine LepreCons without benefit of any parent organization. (I chaired LepreCon nine in April 1979.) Phoenix science fiction fandom was actually started by a man named Terry Ballard who was at that time (i.e. 1969) a library assistant at Phoenix Public Library. Early meetings only had about 5 to 10 attendees and took place in Terry's living room on Friday nights. Terry eventually dropped out of science fiction fandom. Later he started the Phoenix Fantasy Film Society. Terry now is a librarian at St. Johns University in New York City. By the early 1970s, as many as thirty people were showing up for Friday night meetings where we played games, discussed science fiction, drank beer, and generally had a good time. Those early meetings had no names, but became known as the Cosmic Circle meetings (from an old fannish joke) or the Friday Night Inevitable, and for many years Phoenix science fiction fandom moved around the valley to the homes of whoever was willing to host them. By 1978, maybe earlier, two factions had developed among the people who attended the Friday Night Inevitable--those who just wanted to get together and have a good time versus those who wanted to have serious meetings; to have preplanned speakers and keep books. One Friday night in summer the gaming faction neglected to tell the serious faction where the meeting was going to be (actually it was over at my house that night) which resulted in a lot of people driving all over Phoenix looking for the meeting and never finding it (The Night of the Long Drives). Not long after that, CASFS was born as an independent organization--no longer willing to depend on Friday night Inevitables--although the Friday night parties went on and on well into the eighties. |
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