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Re: When was GMLTC started?
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lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp
Date: 
Sat, 7 Oct 2000 23:28:35 GMT
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Steve Demlow wrote:

In lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp Todd Lehman <lehman@javanet.com> wrote:
In lugnet.org, John Gerlach writes:

If you're looking for the date the 'club' started displaying LEGO trains at
shows, it would be sometime in the mid 1980s.  When most of the group
started getting together?  1993.

Would anyone happen to know an exact date for either of those?

1985 was the first year a layout was taken to a show.  The other date is
much more fluid.  (I wasn't around for either; this is based on Conan's
comments today while we were trashing the old layout.)

I guess what I'm looking for is the exact date on which GMLTC started calling
itself GMLTC

As for an exact date, I'd use the date J-1 registered gmltc.org.

That is probably much closer to your 3/5/1999 date - I think John Neal gets
the credit for actually giving the club a name.

Nope.  Can't take it.  I had originally thought about the name "Upper Midwest LEGO
Train Club".  J-1 had thought about "Greater Minnesota LEGO Train Club", and even
registered gmltc.org.  There was a bit of disagreement, but then J-3 suggested
"Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club", and we could still use the domain name.  So if
anyone gets credit, it would be John Kelly.  The rest, as they say, is history.

-John (J-2)



Steve
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(...) 1985 was the first year a layout was taken to a show. The other date is much more fluid. (I wasn't around for either; this is based on Conan's comments today while we were trashing the old layout.) (...) That is probably much closer to your (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)

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