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Shangri-la, issue 6, May-June 1946
Page 13
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EXTRA! SLAM SHACK [Skull represented as a home] CLOSES! The apartment that has,for the last couple of years,been known as Slan Shack Pro-Tem is empty and no longer contains fen. One of the landmarks of Los Angeles Fandom is gone ,swept away by these troubled time. In that apartment at 643 South Bixel Street where Myrtle R. Douglas (so well known to the fan world) as the gracious "Morojo") lived for nearly ten years, from whose rooms dozens of issues of the famous "VoM" crept into the sunny Southern California daylight, to which in 1945 the Galactic Roamers of Michigan lost their mainstays of the Slan Shack there: Al Ashley,Walt Liebscher,Jack Wiedenbeck,and Abby Lu Ashley; has happened dozens of happy fan events, gatherings, parties, and kindred events oft reported in the fan press. From that address many fanzines have appeared, at least for part of their life: Vom,Guteto,Stefan, En Guarde,Chanticleer,Fantasy Ad- vertiser,Slithy Toves, to name but a few. It has often proven a haven for out of town fen who enjoyed the hospitality of the soa. Myrtle´s hospitality and , later , Abby Lu´s cooking were appreciated by literally scores. Such was the spot that is no more, its denizens scattered to the four Sons of Fantasmia, and cast a moan for another of andom´s Shattered Institutions. (((Incidentally, Willmorth & Fantasy Advertiser now resider at 1503-3/4 12th Ave, Los Angeles 6, California..))) ACKIE AND TH´OL´FOO WANT TO SEE YOU FANFOLK AT THE TORCON---- BE THERE!%! Write to Ned Mckeon,1398 Mt.Pleasant Rd´Toronto, Ontario,Canada [NOW] ..... -13-
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EXTRA! SLAM SHACK [Skull represented as a home] CLOSES! The apartment that has,for the last couple of years,been known as Slan Shack Pro-Tem is empty and no longer contains fen. One of the landmarks of Los Angeles Fandom is gone ,swept away by these troubled time. In that apartment at 643 South Bixel Street where Myrtle R. Douglas (so well known to the fan world) as the gracious "Morojo") lived for nearly ten years, from whose rooms dozens of issues of the famous "VoM" crept into the sunny Southern California daylight, to which in 1945 the Galactic Roamers of Michigan lost their mainstays of the Slan Shack there: Al Ashley,Walt Liebscher,Jack Wiedenbeck,and Abby Lu Ashley; has happened dozens of happy fan events, gatherings, parties, and kindred events oft reported in the fan press. From that address many fanzines have appeared, at least for part of their life: Vom,Guteto,Stefan, En Guarde,Chanticleer,Fantasy Ad- vertiser,Slithy Toves, to name but a few. It has often proven a haven for out of town fen who enjoyed the hospitality of the soa. Myrtle´s hospitality and , later , Abby Lu´s cooking were appreciated by literally scores. Such was the spot that is no more, its denizens scattered to the four Sons of Fantasmia, and cast a moan for another of andom´s Shattered Institutions. (((Incidentally, Willmorth & Fantasy Advertiser now resider at 1503-3/4 12th Ave, Los Angeles 6, California..))) ACKIE AND TH´OL´FOO WANT TO SEE YOU FANFOLK AT THE TORCON---- BE THERE!%! Write to Ned Mckeon,1398 Mt.Pleasant Rd´Toronto, Ontario,Canada [NOW] ..... -13-
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