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Subject:	Re: When was GMLTC started?
Newsgroups:	lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp
Date:	Sat, 7 Oct 2000 23:13:01 GMT
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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 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. Steve -- Barb & Steve Demlow | demlow@visi.com | www.visi.com/~demlow/

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		Re: When was GMLTC started?
(...) As for an exact date, I'd use the date J-1 registered gmltc.org. (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)

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		When was GMLTC started? (was: Re: For the history books -- LUG & LTC dates of formation)
(...) Would anyone happen to know an exact date for either of those? (...) 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 (...) (24 years ago, 7-Oct-00, to lugnet.org, lugnet.org.us, lugnet.trains.org, lugnet.loc.us.mn.msp)

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