HolmesWest'99
Three Days with the Master

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Join Us At:
The Mary Norton Clapp Library
at Occidental College, Los Angeles

September 24, 25 and 26, 1999
Mary Norton Clapp Library
Occidental College
1600 Campus Road
Los Angeles, CA 90041

Guest of Honor
Leslie Klinger BSI (The Abbey Grange)
compiler of
The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library

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Friday evening wine and cheese reception and talk by Mr. Klinger
Saturday and Sunday events 9 a.m.-6 p.m., including speakers, live music and a dealer's room
Membership Cost: $38 per person, (membership limited to 75) includes Friday reception, coffee and refreshments Saturday and Sunday, and conference memorabilia

Please make checks payable to and send to:

John P. Sohl, 20446 Orey Place, Canoga Park, CA 91306
tel: 818-703-8708
email: holmeswest@bigfoot.com

More information will be on this site:

http://home.earthlink.net/~jpsohl/holmeswest

Much of the following programming information is tentative:

Speakers

• Les Klinger BSI (The Abbey Grange) keynote - on his creation of The Sherlock Holmes Reference Library
• Sue Dahlinger ASH - from New York City to discuss her new book A Centennial Celebration of The Play "Sherlock Holmes" and the life of William Gillette
• Chuck Kuvocic - speaking about 221 B Baker Street and his new book Building Baker Street, to be published in September (a book in English published in Paris)
• Don Hardenbrook BSI (Huret the Boulevard Assasin) will talk about the fifty year history of Los Angeles's oldest (and one of the country's oldest) Sherlock Holmes Society, The Trained Cormorants
• Jim Cox - from Berkeley, CA to discuss Author Conan Doyle's visit to Los Angeles in 1923
• (if time permits): John Farrell BSI (The Tyrant of San Pedro) slide show of Sherlock Holmes greeting cards

• possible - Jenny Payton from North Carolina will make a virtual appearance with selected videos of herlock Holmes
• possible Irish Music Group - don't know name yet
• possible Brian Mallion - new version of his "highly successful" picture quiz of the Canon.
• possible - Barabara Cooper
• possible - at the Eagle Theater, screening of a 35mm film or lecture (Mr. Gitt from UCLA Film and Television Archives)
• possible - Los Angeles Police Department history by the curator of the not-yet-opened LAPD Museum
• possible - studio spokesman - new Saturday Animated TV show Sherlock Holmes in the 23rd Century

Library Displays

• Los Angeles Public Library (Central Library): foreign language editions (by John Farrell BSI)
• Long Beach Public Library (Main Branch): children's books (by Jim Cox)
• Beverly Hills Public Library: rare collectables (by Les Klinger BSI)
• Burbank Public Library (Main Branch): subject TBA (by Kevin Reed)
• CSUN Oviatt Library (California State University, Northridge): paperback editions (by Michael Masliah and John P. Sohl)
• Occidental College Mary Norton Clapp Library: subject TBA (by John Farrell BSI and John P. Sohl)