Dandelion:

At least one of these pictures I've seen before, of Ray in a photo mock-up, but also check out the Ackerman picture. Both pictures taken at the World science fiction convention in New York, 1939.

click on, or type into finder for the Forry Ackerman photo: http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/NYcon/w39-030.jpeg

& For the Ray Bradbury and friends photo:
http://www.fanac.org/worldcon/NYcon/w39-050.jpeg


[This message has been edited by Nard Kordell (edited 09-07-2003).]

And which one is Bradbury on a second picture?

The guy in the striped shirt.

This offers a wide range of pics from a site that may have been noted here at another posting. Some may not have visited it for review. Thus: http://raybradburyonline.com/imagegallery.htm


[This message has been edited by fjpalumbo (edited 09-09-2003).]

Reviving this incredibly old thread to post this link to The Illustrated NYCON Review - a 1939 fanzine reporting on the first World SF Convention.

Unfortunately, despite being "illustrated", this PDF version is without the photographs, but it DOES include the list of everyone who attended that first convention. Ray Bradbury is listed, as is Isaac Asimov.

Here's the link: http://efanzines.com/1939Nycon...ted-Nycon-Review.pdf

(When I get my time machine (a Toynbee Convector perhaps), my first destination will be the Jurassic period to shoot a T. Rex, but then I shall be off to 1939 New York to watch that first generation of geeks, nerds and Martians assemble. I might even grab Bradbury and Asimov and introduce them, since they apparently didn't meet at that point, even though they were in the same room together.)

Think of the effort to typewrite and compile all of that information within the W SF Con program info! Although I started with no computer in my first classroom years, one soon became a part of the norm (floppy discs and all). Looking back at the way things were, how did we do all of that tedious work (compiling & edits!!) and remain sane?!

That is really an historic pdf.

With the aid of correction fluid, and lots of crossings-out!

What I like most about that document is the hand-drawn ads for various pulp magazines. I wonder if these were paid ads, or just for fun.

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Have you ever tried that on a manual typewriter?

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Originally posted by jkt:
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Have you ever tried that on a manual typewriter?

Only with a pair of scissors, a bottle of mucilage and tweezers.