The First Clubhouse (Ventura Blvd.)

Menace and Speeches

Photos

The Second Clubhouse (Burbank Blvd.)

Marty Cantor Photos

(Street View) froom Hazel's Picture Gallery
Copyright Chaz Boston Baden 2002 

One Small Portion of the LASFS Library
from Hazel's Picture Gallery
Copyright Chaz Boston Baden 1997

The Third Clubhouse (Tyrone Ave.)

Click here for photos of what theThird Clubhouse looked like before we bought it and began reworking it.  For more photos and information on the New Clubhouse, go to New Building.

Freehafer Hall

Long before LASFS bought its own clubhouse, there was a Freehafer Hall every Thursday night, because the club voted that wherever it met would be named Freehafer Hall in honor of Paul Freehafer. Freehafer was only 27 when he died of a rheumatic heart in 1944, but it was his cheerful enthusiasm for carrying club projects to completion that made the LASFS one of the leading SF clubs of the late 1930s and early 1940s.
At the Burbank Blvd. clubhouse, Freehafer Hall was the meeting room in the back building, which was formally termed the Paul Turner Building.  

The Null Space

On September 2, 2010, it was moved that "in honor of his many years of service to the [Los Angeles Science Fantasy] Society, we name the space between Building 4SJ and the Paul Turner building for Merlin R. “Bob” Null to refer to it as the “Null Space.” This was passed unanimously"

Building 4SJ

At the Burbank Blvd. clubhouse, the Forrest J Ackerman building (also known as Building 4SJ) was the LASFS's front building and housed the Library and Computer Room. It was  named in honor of Forrest J Ackerman .  It contained....

The LASFS Library

The LASFS has a large lending library of science fiction, fantasy and genre-related nonfiction books. Housed in the 4SJ building, it consists of more than 20,000 volumes. The library takes quite a lot of work to maintain and more than a few librarians. The librarian is Warren Johnson, assisted by Darnell Coleman and other able volunteers. Library work parties are regularly scheduled on the 4th Saturday of each month, and members are encouraged to participate in keeping our collection up-to-date and in good order.

Backpacks, big coats and the like are not permitted in the Library

One of the things that makes the LASFS unique is that every book and publication in its Library and every video in its Video Collection is available to any member to borrow, even those that are rare and unusual. The LASFS is firmly committed to this type of open access.

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