The Committee for Boston in 1980 Is Bidding to Hold the 1980 Eastern Zone Worldcon in Boston, Massachusetts
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The Committee for Boston in 1980 is bidding to hold the 1980 Eastern Zone Worldcon in Boston, Massachusetts. We feel that we offer the most capable committee and the best facilities and we hope that, after reading this flyer, you will agree. You can join us as a Pre-Supporting member by sending $1.00 or more to us at Post Office Box 714, Boston, MA 02102. (We are also accepting Pre-Opposing memberships for $2.00 or more.) Pre-Supporting and Pre-Opposing members of Boston in 1980 will get a dollar credit toward registration at the 1980 Worldcon if we win. Our Philosophy How To Vote We believe that the Worldcon belongs to the fans, The site and committee of the 1980 World Science not to the Con Committee, and that the Committee Fiction Convention will be chosen two years in advance holds the Convention in trust for fandom. This imposes by the members of Iguanacon, the 1978 Worldcon, which certain unwritten obligations on the Committee: the will be held in Phoenix, Arizona, over Labor Day traditions must be followed and innovations should be weekend. made only to enhance — not disrupt — the Convention. You can become a Supporting Member of Iguana- In short, the Committee is responsible to fandom for con by sending $7.00 to running the Worldcon right. Iguanacon Now, every fan has his or her own definition of P. O. Box 1072 what “right” is. We don’t feel that the Committee should Phoenix, AZ 85001 select one or another, but should try to encompass all of This entitles you to receive their publications and to these feelings of what a Worldcon should be. In partic nominate and vote for the Hugo awards. ular, there should be no attempt to exclude any aspect of If you can travel to Phoenix and want to attend fandom. And in order to be responsive to the needs of the festivities in person, you have to pay a little more to fandom, it is essential that the Committee maintain become an Attending Member. Attending Membership prompt and open communications with the Convention rates are $15.00 until the end of 1977, $20.00 in 1978, and membership. will be higher if you join at the convention itself. This is the kind of Worldcon we want to put on for You must be either a Supporting or Attending you. We have enjoyed running Worldcons and Regionals Member of Iguanacon in order to vote for the 1980 site in the past, and we believe we have demonstrated our selection. Voters have the choice of sending in a mail enthusiasm and ability. Of course we will make mis ballot or voting in person at Iguanacon. At the time that takes — that is inevitable. But we can admit our mis you vote, you will also be required to pay a small amount takes and work to correct them. With fandom’s help, to be credited toward your membership in the 1980 con we’re willing to do our damnedest to make the 1980 vention, whichever committee wins. Worldcon the best ever. We’ll be working/or you — and with you. August 1977 The HOTEL difficulty.) The Massachusetts Turn BOSTON pike (1-90) passes under part of the Pru Our hotel is the Sheraton-Boston, Boston, founded in 1630, has pres dential Center and has an exit right erved many of its older buildings and is the flagship hotel of the Sheraton chain. there. The hotel provides reduced-rate Since it hosted Noreascon, the 1971 a fine city just to walk around in. A 25<t parking in an underground garage; you subway ride will get you to most parts of Worldcon, it has been expanded to 1,430 can unload your car right next to the guest rooms and 42,318 sq. ft. of function town (unless perhaps your name is elevators that serve the guest room Charlie) and there’s a subway entrance space, ranging from the 15,796 sq. ft. floors. Just a few blocks from the hotel Grand Ballroom complex to many right by the hotel. If you’re interested is the Back Bay Railroad Station and in historic sites, you can walk the smaller modular rooms. the Greyhound and Trailways Bus Since Noreascon, the Sheraton- Freedom Trail, which takes you to Stations. Logan International Airport places like the Old North Church, the Boston has been the site of five Boskone is just across the harbor from the city regional science fiction conventions. Paul Revere House, the old and new center and only three miles from the State Houses, Faneuil Hall, and the Because of this past experience, we hotel. Limousines run between the know that the hotel staff enjoys work Granary and Copp’s Hill Burial Grounds. hotel and the airport every half hour For culture, pick up a copy of the ing with fans and is familiar with the and the current fare is $2.50. There is needs of a science fiction convention. weekly Real Paper, and check out the also a convenient public transportation scores of listings each week of legit They know what a Worldcon is all about system that will get you from the air and are looking forward to hosting imate, repertory, and college theatre, port to a subway stop by the hotel for concerts, lectures, poetry readings, and another one. only 50<P. The Sheraton-Boston offers all the other events. Or visit one of the many usual amenities: air-conditioning, color museums — the Museum of Fine Arts, TV, ice and soft drink machines on The Auditorium the Museum of Science, the Isabella every guest room floor, room service, The Hynes Civic Auditorium con Stewart Gardner Museum. Harvard etc. In addition, they provide reduced nects directly to the Sheraton-Boston University, just a short subway ride rate parking, a year-round dome-cov Hotel. You won’t have to cross a street across the Charles River in Cambridge, ered swimming pool, and nine restau or walk through a tunnel — you can operates three museums just by itself. rants and lounges including an ice step directly into the Hynes from the The same short subway ride will get cream parlor which is open all night hotel’s convention floor. you to Cambridge’s Science Fantasy during cons. The Hynes has an auditorium that Book Store and the Million Year Picnic Although we expect that the Sher seats 5,161 people along with an addi for comics. Bookstores abound in the aton will provide enough sleeping rooms tional 120,000 sq. ft. of exhibit space. It Boston/Cambridge area, and there are for all attendees, any overflow can has 23 permanent or modular meeting many long-established used book stores easily be accommodated in the 1,300 rooms, plenty of utilities, and a floor such as George Gloss’s Brattle Book additional sleeping rooms to be found loading capacity that would allow a Shop. In addition to Newbury Street in other hotels within a two-block huckster to have five tons of books at already mentioned, shopping oppor radius. his table. Both the Hynes and the tunities include downtown Boston’s Sheraton have convenient off-street department stores and Filene’s Base Getting There loading docks for hucksters and ex ment (scene of carnage, death, and hibitors, and one of the Hynes ele super bargains), the Charles Street The hotel is in the Prudential antique shops, and the newly-renov Center in Boston’s Back Bay area, and vators, with a 48' by 14' 8" platform, would accommodate the biggest elevat ated Quincy Market near Faneuil Hall is convenient to all the usual forms of or party ever. (where the Walrus and the Carpenter transportation. (Fans arriving on horse serves the freshest oysters in town). back or by space shuttle may have some Just beyond the Quincy Market is the Near The Hotel un-renovated Haymarket, where meat The Sheraton-Boston Hotel and markets and pushcart produce vendors the Hynes Auditorium are located in What is a Worldcon? are thronged every Friday and Satur the Prudential Center — a modern day. The market area also contains the Once a year, thousands of complex of stores, offices, and apart famous Durgin-Park restaurant, which science fiction fans gather at a ments with its own underground park offers huge portions of plain New World Science Fiction Convention ing garage. The Pru also contains a 24- England food served family-style by where they get to know each hour supermarket, a liquor store, bran absolutely unbelievable waitresses. other, meet the professionals in ches of Brentano’s Book Store, Saks Nearby is the North end, a very ethnic the field, hear talks and panel dis Fifth Avenue, and Lord & Taylor, Italian neighborhood with many fine cussions, give out the Hugo awards, twenty-two other stores, a 50-story- restaurants. And don’t forget China watch movies, wear costumes, buy high observation deck, and an excellent town! The waterfront is another inter books and art, and a hundred other multi-media show called “Where’s Bos- esting area with an excellent Aquar things — but most of all, they have tonn?”. ium, a replica of the Boston Tea Party fun. In contrast to most regional On Boylston Street, which borders ship, the real U.S.S. Constitution, and science fiction conventions, which the Pru, you will find lots of eating lots of old wharfs to explore. You can are run by local groups and are places ranging from Jewish delis to take a harbor cruise that stops at usually held in the same area each Chinese cafeterias to creperies — plus George’s Island, a state park with a year, the World Science Fiction book stores, movie theatres, camera Revolutionary War fort.