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Fantasy Digest, v. 1, issue 6, August-September 1939
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14 FANTASY DIGEST "When Rochester Speaks Up", or "More Who's Who in Rochester" by Larry B. Farsaci (Continuing the series inspired by "Who's Who in Rochester"....Thanks, Bob, for your suggestion to have names listed alphabetically.) HOWARD J. FAHRER Do you remember a letter in an old 1927 Amazing which commented on the epitaph dedicated to a Mr. Lu Senarens in the June issue? Well, if you noted closely you must recall the above name as author of the letter. I first met Mr. Hahrer about a year before I wrote the "Who's Who in Rochester" article--and it is mostly because of him, whom I completely forgot to include, that I am writing this sequel. The person is a man now past his twenties, husky, and of friendly disposition. I still vividly recall that night when, together with Elmer, we all drove over to the home of one of the country's really classic collectors, who lives right here in Rochester, and inspected his marvelous collection of items from all over the world, and through all the years, among which is a holy temple bell from ancient China (oh! what a treasure this is!) and one of the six original "Declaration of Independence"! (No science fiction, I am sorry to say, except possibly in the likelihood some of the early dime novels, etc., were of such nature.) To get back to Mr. Fahrer: you recall he said in the letter that the dedication brought back to him pleasant memories of his younger days when he read and reread the adventures of Frank Roade, Jr. originating in Readstown, N. J. Well, he has quite a large collection of those Frank Reade bi weeklies, beginning about 1901, and prizes very highly the Vol. 1, No. 1 issue for which he has been offered as much as five dollars for, if not more. The reason he keeps them is the same reason why we would treasure a copy of the first science fiction mag we ever saw and because, at the same time, they are worth-while and entertaining stories, actually representatives of the very first all-stf magazine long before "Amazing Stories". Oh! I almost forgot: Mr. Fahrer is the owner of a dairy business and has a son who has ability in drawing advertising displays. As a fan he is another person who believes the real essence of science fiction left for good when Gernsback stopped publishing large size magazines and the reprinting of "The Moon Pool" and other classics. LARRY B. FARSACI That's me in case you didn't know and here are some autobiographical facts. I was born in Rochester, February 11, 1921. With the first glimmerings of consciousness, I began to be interested in the vast unknown. Everybody I met practically had to suffer for a question as "what is a star?" and at the very early ago of 11 I was noted for having a prodigious amount of knowledge of astronomy. The highlight of this period was when I appeared at the telescope with Professor Fairbanks in "The Times-Union" for March 4, 1935 under the title, "Young Rochesterian May Unlock Some of Deepest Riddles of Universe". My introduction to science fiction, as far as I can recall, was with "The Swordsmen of Saryen" and "The City of Singing Flame" issue of Wonder, one of my favorites. I did not find fan mags, however, until about the beginning of 1935 when I wrote to Julius Schwartz for a sample copy of Fantasy Magazine, the issue dedicated to Amazing Stories. Soon after that, I made a surprising discovery in a bookstore. There, put together with a rubber band and priced at 40c, was a neat little
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14 FANTASY DIGEST "When Rochester Speaks Up", or "More Who's Who in Rochester" by Larry B. Farsaci (Continuing the series inspired by "Who's Who in Rochester"....Thanks, Bob, for your suggestion to have names listed alphabetically.) HOWARD J. FAHRER Do you remember a letter in an old 1927 Amazing which commented on the epitaph dedicated to a Mr. Lu Senarens in the June issue? Well, if you noted closely you must recall the above name as author of the letter. I first met Mr. Hahrer about a year before I wrote the "Who's Who in Rochester" article--and it is mostly because of him, whom I completely forgot to include, that I am writing this sequel. The person is a man now past his twenties, husky, and of friendly disposition. I still vividly recall that night when, together with Elmer, we all drove over to the home of one of the country's really classic collectors, who lives right here in Rochester, and inspected his marvelous collection of items from all over the world, and through all the years, among which is a holy temple bell from ancient China (oh! what a treasure this is!) and one of the six original "Declaration of Independence"! (No science fiction, I am sorry to say, except possibly in the likelihood some of the early dime novels, etc., were of such nature.) To get back to Mr. Fahrer: you recall he said in the letter that the dedication brought back to him pleasant memories of his younger days when he read and reread the adventures of Frank Roade, Jr. originating in Readstown, N. J. Well, he has quite a large collection of those Frank Reade bi weeklies, beginning about 1901, and prizes very highly the Vol. 1, No. 1 issue for which he has been offered as much as five dollars for, if not more. The reason he keeps them is the same reason why we would treasure a copy of the first science fiction mag we ever saw and because, at the same time, they are worth-while and entertaining stories, actually representatives of the very first all-stf magazine long before "Amazing Stories". Oh! I almost forgot: Mr. Fahrer is the owner of a dairy business and has a son who has ability in drawing advertising displays. As a fan he is another person who believes the real essence of science fiction left for good when Gernsback stopped publishing large size magazines and the reprinting of "The Moon Pool" and other classics. LARRY B. FARSACI That's me in case you didn't know and here are some autobiographical facts. I was born in Rochester, February 11, 1921. With the first glimmerings of consciousness, I began to be interested in the vast unknown. Everybody I met practically had to suffer for a question as "what is a star?" and at the very early ago of 11 I was noted for having a prodigious amount of knowledge of astronomy. The highlight of this period was when I appeared at the telescope with Professor Fairbanks in "The Times-Union" for March 4, 1935 under the title, "Young Rochesterian May Unlock Some of Deepest Riddles of Universe". My introduction to science fiction, as far as I can recall, was with "The Swordsmen of Saryen" and "The City of Singing Flame" issue of Wonder, one of my favorites. I did not find fan mags, however, until about the beginning of 1935 when I wrote to Julius Schwartz for a sample copy of Fantasy Magazine, the issue dedicated to Amazing Stories. Soon after that, I made a surprising discovery in a bookstore. There, put together with a rubber band and priced at 40c, was a neat little
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