meet your ancestors

[phosfate]

Photos from early Star Trek conventions:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/196011

Comments

[nitasee.livejournal.com]

THat picture of Nichelle Nichols with a young fan is sweet.

God the world was young then.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Well, hey there, Lois McMaster Bujold, ACTUAL FANS OF COLOR in those photos BEFORE the Internet. How the hell could that be?

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I'm sure they were dragged along by well-meaning white friends. The same way all the women are there with their boyfriends. And the boyfriends are all in another room.

[violetisblue.livejournal.com]

Perhaps it's the same one FoC over and over again wearing a clever series of sock-puppet-like masks. I heard that totally happens, like, a lot.

[oddrid.livejournal.com]

Holy shit this is awesome

[pandonkey.livejournal.com]

Oh, wow, what a great piece! Great photos.

[chalcedony.livejournal.com]

Ancestors? I'm either in or just out of frame for a pretty large number of those.

[annlarimer.livejournal.com]

I'm counting myself among them, believe me.

[robanybody.livejournal.com]

Oh, I love those pictures. Such fantastic costumes.

[hawkmoth.livejournal.com]

Oh my God. I remember Angelique! And Joanie Winston...I was at at least a couple of those conventions...

And you feel old??

[prof-pangaea.livejournal.com]

argh this is like such a flashback to when i was fourteen and reading bjo trimble's "on the good ship enterprise" and wishing i could go back in time just so i could go to real trek convention from the 70's. i had strange priorities when i was fourteen. and... now. yes.