Denver Area Science Fiction Association
(If you are looking for theDallasclub, that isDASFS.)
DASFA is aDenverclub founded in December 21, 1968, after some differences of opinion betweenCaz and some of the otherCFS members. He placed notices in libraries and other places, and the first organizational meeting took place with about fifteen people present.
Initially, the club met monthly at the Broadway Book Mall with another meeting 2 weeks later at a members house, the 'Alternate'. By the late 70s, it was meeting at the SW State Bank in downtown Denver.
It hostsMileHiCon. Itsclubzine isDASFAx. Some of the members of DASFA who would become prominent in later decades includedDoris Beetem (whose daughters later became fans) andDon C. Thompson.
Clubfanzines includedLungfish andThe Periodical Lungfish. It also published theDasfolk Filk-Rock, afilk book.
SeeAh, Wilderness for more.
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