Los Angeles Clubs
When you think of clubs in LA, you think of LASFS, the first club in LA and one which is still active. But there were others -- many others.
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LASFS[edit]
LASFS rates its own page.
Early Clubs[edit]
World Girdlers' International Science League Correspondence Club[edit]
fl. 1937
The WGCC was a club which existed (briefly) around 1937. It was the brainchild of Vernon Harry in Los Angeles and was announced in the January 1937 issue of Fantasy Magazine. It never had more than a few members and folded when Harry went to work on a night shift.
It's unclear whether it was a bit of a scam from the beginning, or the product of teenage megalomania.
T. Bruce Yerke became a member just before it folded.
It was mentioned in Fancy 1 under WGCC:
| From Fancyclopedia 1, ca. 1944 |
| World Girdlers' Correspondence Club. One of the mushrooms of the First Transition. No other information available. |
United Califans[edit]
Futurian Society of Los Angeles[edit]
Futurian Society of California[edit]
fl. 1942-42
Under three different names, this is one of the many ersatz clubs started by Claude Degler. James Kepner and some other neofans were members, along with Forrest J Ackerman as an honorary member. As soon as Degler left L.A., the others dropped off, leaving Ackerman the sole member and when Ackerman went into the Army, it was memberless.
The Knaves The Outsiders The Outlanders The Insurgents Harbor Fantasy League Weird Tales Club Mañana Literary Society Science Fiction League
Central L. A. Club Desolation of Smaug Mydgard Lothlorien Nargothrond Time Meddlers of Los Angeles Southwest Association of Fans SCIFI Tolkien Forever Fellowship of Southern California
Non-Local Clubs HQed in LA[edit]
The Fantasy Association Fantasy Artist Network Mythopoeic Society ARS
