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  • From: Steve Burnett <sburnett AT webslingerz.com>
  • To: InterNetWorkers <internetworkers AT franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: funny hats
  • Date: Tue, 7 Nov 2000 11:53:03 -0500 (EST)


On Tue, 7 Nov 2000 AlMaur777 AT aol.com wrote:

> Speaking of funny hats, old time sci-fi fans (who sometimes pronounce that
> "skiffy") wore propeller beenies...

As a footnote, the earliest referral I can find to this practice is Apollo
Smith joining a rocketry research group at Caltech in 1936 under the
direction of von Karman (members of this group went on to found JPL, as
well as the Aerojet Corp that currently makes the space shuttle boosters)
- "Smith was a Caltech student like [Frank] Malina, and regarded an
eccentric since he constantly wore a pith helmet he modified by placing a
cooling fan on top."
Members of this team went on to, among other things, be active in the Los
Angeles Science Fantasy Society about 1940, which included such SF
attendees as Forrest J. Ackerman, Jack Williamson, A.E. Van Vogt, Ray
Bradbury, Heinlein, (oh, and that scientology guy a bit later).

regards,
Steve Burnett, not-a-member-of-the-SMOF
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