PropCon

Convention
Name:	PropCon
Dates:	1985, 1986
Frequency:	once
Location:	"At the Glorious Hotel Collingwood in Beautiful Downtown Hawthorne"
Type:	fan-run gathering
Focus:	Star Trek, Doctor Who, other stuff
Organization:
Founder:	Lisa Wahl
Founding Date:
URL:
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PropCon was a fan gathering at a fan's home in California. See flyer.

PropCon1

August 31-September 2, 1985

There was an art show, a video room, a costume contest, a gaming room, a con suite, and a kitchen ("food, food, food!").

There is a long description of this gathering in The Propagator #13. Some excerpts: the supper at the Sizzler , the long hours watching Star Trek and Doctor Who videos, the filksinging, the enforced art project at 4:30 in the morning, and the host's constant making of ice cubes. Fans lit candles at the base of the Leonard Nimoy altar in the kitchen and chanted "Phone home, phone home." And Lisa made more ice cubes. There was a panel on Women in SF ("Do We Really Need Men? -- the general answer was "no"), "people complained bitterly about the missing orgy, and the fact that they waited in line all day to see Lisa water the lawn," Lisa made ice cubes, there was Lisa's 'Death Dinner and Birthday Party" (on the menu: egg rolls, barbequed chicken, spaghetti with sausage), fans watched some Man from U.N.C.L.E., more Trek, more Doctor Who, fans were "forced to participate in a dramatic reading of the upcoming fanzine Omne Praeceptum Frangit," fans went out side and sang filksongs, and the Dealer's Room was really a linen closet. And Lisa made ice cubes.

PropCon 2

• August 15-17, 1986

Lisa Wahl announces the second PropCon: "Those who survived PropCon I are in shock. Can she really be planning ANOTHER one? It's true. I'm that foolish. If PropCon I was a micro-con. PropCon II will be a desk-top con. On the night of Friday, August 15th, Collingwood will begin to fill up with fans of Star Trek, Doctor Who, Dark Shadows and still more bizarre things. On midnight, Sunday, August the 17th, the smoke will clear and the dead will be removed. In between, our film program will be astounding, our Dealers' Room will be filled, ST and Who fans will once again face each other over a baseball diamond to test each other's metal, an orgy will be scheduled and Lisa will make ice cubes. Can you really miss this? PropCon II memberships are now just $5. They will go up at the door and might even go up before that, I haven't decided. For that pitance, not only are you allowed admittance to all of our wonderful programmed events (some of which might even happen), but you'll also get both a Progress Report and Program Book, whatever food I can afford to serve (this does NOT mean that you shouldn't plan to bring along some of your own!), and overnight accomodations at the Hotel Collinwood for Friday and Saturday. Note that sleeping assignments will be made on the basis of when I get your money. Latecomers will get the rose bushes. Of course, if you don't care to sleep in the bushes, there IS an overflow motel not far from Collingwood. Long distance members: here's your chance to meet us all! Once again, there will be a PropCon t-shirt. Please order in advance. The design will be a Macintosh creation featuring our beloved starship Tradition. Just $12 each. Contributions for the Progress Report and Program Book will be welcome. They should be parodies of anything you might find in another PR and PB. Suggestions for programming are also welcome."