SFScope friend Andrew Porter writes to tell us that the Los Angeles Science Fantasy Society has purchased a new building in which to meet, to hold its extensive library, and carry on its activities, which started before World War II. The new building is twice the size of the old building, which the club acquired in 1977, after buying its first permanent meeting place in 1973. Previously it met in such places as Clifton’s Cafeteria, the meeting rooms of the Silverlake Playground, etc.
Full details on the acquisition are on this page.
This Picasa gallery has 48 pictures of the new building, including (since we are sf fans) a satellite photo. The building is located at 6012 Tyrone, Van Nuys, CA 91401 (on the corner of Tyrone and Aetna, a block north of Oxnard and a block east of Van Nuys Blvd).
Porter also reminds us that “the history of LASFS, which traces its origins back to Hugo Gernsback and 1934, is detailed on this Wikipedia page.