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Leolaia

Weekend ass-embly that made me miss the farewell of my friend who was moving away.

Snoozy

The LAST assembly we went to we all got food poisoning...funny thing is..when we went back to the meeting everyone acted like it was a big secret and not to tell anyone...

We all compared what we ate but that didn't work..they had turkey and dressing but I suspected the ice tea sitting in an aluminum pitcher ...

Sure wish we could have sued their butts off..we were sick as a dog..laying on the floor hugging the porcelin god kind.

Snoozy...

ps...That's probably when they decided not to serve hot meals anymore!

There were two district convention sites that our congregation alternated between a few times. One was Veteran's stadium in Philadelphia, and the other was in Landover, MD just outside Washington DC. Everyone would hope that this year it'd be Landover since that was indoors and air conditioned, and Veteran's Stadium was an outdoor stadium. When we were assigned Veteran's there'd always be a special needs talk on how we were to follow instruction and go to Philly instead of Landover.

Mary

I cannot think of any worse place to have a convention than the Pontiac Silverdome.

Believe it or not, there IS a worse place: The Buffalo ASSembly. 1969. To anyone who was there, no further explanation is needed.

wizardca

I'd have to agree with the Cow Palace in San Francisco. It would get sweltering hot in there. Yeah the wind tunnel was kinda nice if you were walking around during the session trying to work out the cramp from no leg room for hours on end. Gotta remember the troughs to pee in. Gotta love that. Remember having toilet ~~dooty~~ duty one year...dunno what was worse, the stench from the pee or the stupid fragrance brick things. Ugh. I just remember being so happy to be an attendant so i could zone out during the session.

Dagney

Oh yeah, forgot about the conventions in third world tropical countries. Good part, when it rained the sound on the tin roof drowned out the speakers. Interesting sanitary conditions, mud, heat, bugs, getting the ground meat ready for the cafeteria...**shiver**

I also remember freezing in the rain at Candlestick Park. (Not named that anymore right?)

Ahhh...the memories.

Gregor

Just about any open stadium in the summer is hell. I spent days of unbearable heat and evenings of bone chilling cold in Candlestick Park. One night the fog began to pour in from the west like a slow motion wave until we could barely see the platform and the temp dropped 30 degrees in less than an hour. Most people were not clothing prepared for the contrast.

That being said, the WORST was the Pasadena Rose Bowl in 1963. NO shade anywhere. 90f+ heat every day for EIGHT days. The food was cooked in an old US Army surplus field kitchen, served cafeteria style on stainless steel trays, with plywood stand up tables under tents. The 1+ hour wait in line was under the beating sun. People were dropping right and left. This was in the days before the convenient plastic water bottles. You stood in line at a cooler to get a flimsy folding paper cup of water that you perspired before you got back to your seat. Knorr gave a 90 min closing remarks and a 30 minute prayer

beksbks

My gosh Gregor! That sounds like hell, I'm glad I wasn't there.

WTWizard

Of all the venues I have been to, Copps Colosseum in Hamilton, Ontario was the most bearable. Perhaps that was because the corridors ran all the way around, and any Canada trip to a person visiting from the States involves some getting used to (hence, adventure) that is sorely missing in the Witless community. It was also the first Grand Boasting Session I ever went to, and thus not as boring as future ones would be.

The ones in the States (I am not divulging where because I want any lurking hounders to have to txxxx in order to bust me) were not the heat traps that I have seen described, but they had their share of problems. Congestion was the biggie. One I went to had corridors that ran up and down the stairs all the way to the top and bottom of the auditorium. One problem: The corridors were only 4 feet wide (if that), and divided in the center with the railing. That created congestion, because one could not readily move to the other side if one side is blocked.

I liked the upper levels better. The lower levels were always hotter (the air conditioning had a hard time reaching the floor but easily reached the upper levels). It was also dimmer in the upper levels, making taking a nap that much easier. Another advantage is that the hounders attending the wastefest were sometimes too lazy to walk all the way up the stairs to wake someone up or make me take off my rap box. The floor level and the first bank of bleachers are often heavily patrolled, and people in the lower levels were often busted for things like having children making too much noise, bringing out a Game Boy, or making too many trips to mill around.

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