During its early years, the con was held in local hotels.
The year after the U.S. Grant Hotel, the convention was moved to the University of California, San Diego, before calling the El Cortez Hotel home for most of the decade (with the exception of 1973, when it was held at the Sheraton). Between 1979 and 1995, it bounced around between several Convention Center hotels before it finally made a permanent landing at the San Diego Convention Center.