Reunion Con

Convention
Name:	Reunion Con or the Starsky & Hutch Fifteenth Anniversary convention
Dates:	Oct 12-14, 1990
Frequency:	one time
Location:	Los Angeles, CA
Type:	fan run
Focus:	Starsky & Hutch
Organization:
Founder:	Cheryl Maier (con chair), Megan Kent and Charlotte Hill (some members of the concom)
Founding Date:
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While the event was primarily a Starsky & Hutch con, the fanzine flyer listed a wide range of pairings and fandoms, including the Professionals, MUNCLE, Star Trek, Harry & Johnny and more.

The venue was the Bonaventure Hotel, where a "Starsky & Hutch" episode had been filmed.

The convention had a dealer's room, an art show, video room, a writer's workshop led by Lucy Doty, a con suite and an orphan zine table. Other activities included a pool party at the hotel, a tour of the Los Angeles Police Academy, and a picnic at a park that was the setting for the Starsky & Hutch episode "Rosie Malone." The registration cost was $25.

Con Zine

The con zine was Memories.

Some Ephemera

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  convention flyer handed out in advance of Zebracon 1989

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  convention registration form. The lower half has been used to register. Click to read.

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  convention badge worn by an attendee

Con Reports

In spite of foul-ups by the management, the hotel is beautiful with its indoor pools and fountains and the glass elevators going up the outside of the outside of the building for breath-taking views of the city [snipped] l fell asleep with all of them punching and collating the program book, and woke up to all of them punching and collating the program book! They insisted that they had slept?!? Friday, we registered, then set up our displays in the Dealers' Room and the Art Show before taking off for the LAPD Police Academy tour scheduled for us. Our guide was excellent. [snipped] Saturday was spent visiting, selling, talking, and going to panels. I saw many old-time west coast friends like [E H], [K H] (whose pro book Cost of Love is out), [J M], [C B], [M B], [S G], [E R] [F J], and lots of others. [Many other fan names snipped], Suzan (with her gorgeous Master of the Revels work as well as lots of other great stuff that went very well in the art auction, of course).... It was a wonderful chance to get together in celebration of a show we still love, even though many of us have added new shows as well over the years. The charity sales and auction raised a LOT of money for Pediatric Aids Foundation. Several thousand, I think. It was a good way to thank Paul and David for the pleasure they've give us. Sunday is always the saddest time, saying goodbye to everyone...

REUNION CON, a week [after SHareCon], was another highlight, with its superb Art Exhibition and its varied programme. Good to be in L.A. again, back at the 'Bonaventure' almost ten years after my first acquaintance with that unique rendezvous. And the tour of the LAPD was a wonderful bonus in that weekend. [C] and [L] left us with some great memories, plus the most classy CON programme book I've ever seen. THANK YOU for that and for so much more. There were the new zines too, still no more than skimmed until the jet-lag stops lurking. Good to have the 'Penal Code' sequel. And 'Bird of Paradise' actually flew into my hand. Perhaps I'll appreciate those illos more clearly when I've read the story; first impression is that they relate more to the rock band scene and to the drug-taking than to S&H. Maybe that's by design. Reading could elucidate.