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Subject: 
When was GMLTC started? (was: Re: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation)
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In lugnet.org, John Gerlach writes:
In lugnet.org, Todd Lehman writes:
1999-03-05  GMLTC: Greater Midwest LEGO Train Club (U.S.A.)

What date are you looking for here?

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?


When we started having any sort of 'web'
presence?  Maybe 1998, or maybe your 1999/03/05 date...

The GMLTC has been called 'the most informal club' because we don't have
dues, or a charter, or even a roster.  We just get together and build.
We're not big into self promotion, we prefer to let our layout impress
people.

I guess what I'm looking for is the exact date on which GMLTC started calling
itself GMLTC (i.e., that it became that entity, however informally) and also,
if known, the date on which people in the Twin Cities (those who initially
founded GMLTC) started congregating and saying, "Hey, we should make a thing
of this."

Sounds like the history of GMLTC would make a very interesting book.  :-)

--Todd



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  Re: When was GMLTC started? (was: Re: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation)
 
(...) Why exactly? (both senses...) That is, exactly why do you need to know this, and why does it have to be exact? Would the year be good enough? GMLTC started from one guy and his uncle who loved LEGO and grew from there. It's the granddaddy of (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)
  Re: When was GMLTC started?
 
(...) 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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  Re: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation
 
(...) What date are you looking for here? 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. When we started having any (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.org)

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