Sergeant Pepper didn't have anything to do with it, but today is a rather special anniversary.
On Thursday 18 June 1987 - exactly twenty years ago today - myself and a fellow student, Paul Sinkovich, visited Shadows, the University of Auckland campus bar. We had a couple of occasions to celebrate, and decided to do this with a few beers.
Earlier that same day we had produced the very first copies of our own Doctor Who fanzine. Paul and I had decided over lunch that New Zealand fandom needed a Doctor Who fanzine, so in a space of a few weeks we'd created the first issue.
We called the fanzine The Time/Space Visualiser. We didn't know if it would last more than a couple of issues, but here we are, twenty years later. That fanzine - now known as TSV - is still going strong after 74 issues.
The reason I can be so sure about the exact date is that our second cause for celebration was that 18 June 1987 was my nineteenth birthday.
Happy birthday Paul (and TSV!)
ReplyDeleteCelebrationss! (For any and all activities this day!)
ReplyDeleteYes, I'd like to wish you a happy birthday too Paul. Many happy returns.
ReplyDeleteA belated congratulations. I've always appreciated TSV - even if I never subscribed (just lurked on the Website.) Especially since I think it kick-started the fourth wave of Kiwi fandom. I never knew the Shadows connection before. Of course that played a big part in the origins of AUSFS, Norcon 1 and Antecon and countless one day Star Trek minicons during the mid 80's. Cheers. Nigel Rowe
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