1987 Sub-Librarians Meeting: A Victorian High Tea with Sherlock Holmes
Start Date
6-28-1987 4:00 PM
End Date
6-28-1987 6:00 PM
Co-Sponsoring Scion Organization
Legends of the West Country
Location
S. Holmes Esq. Pub / Holiday Inn-Union Square
City and State
San Francisco, California
Description
100 years for Sherlock Holmes; 50 years for the Golden Gate Bridge. Tthe 17th (Irregular) annual meeting took place in the Savoy Room, adjacent to the S. Holmes Esq. Pub on the 30th floor of the Holiday Inn-Union Square. The program included a Victorian high tea, announcements/toasts, Sherlockian door prizes, and a reading of Vincent Starrett's "221B". Presenters included Howard Lachtman, writer of "Sherlock Slept Here," on Conan Doyle's San Francisco Visits and Otto Penzler, publisher of the Mysterious Press, on the increasing popularity of mystery fiction. Local arrangements thanks to Eugenia Winter for her spectacular planning.
Contact Information
Marsha Pollak and Eugenia B. Winter
Recommended Citation
Lachtman, Howard; Penzler, Otto; Schulz, Ted; and Pollak, Marsha, "1987 Sub-Librarians Meeting: A Victorian High Tea with Sherlock Holmes" (1987). The Sub-Librarians Scion of the Baker Street Irregulars in the American Library Association. 24.
https://scholarexchange.furman.edu/sublibrarians/all/events/24
1987 Sub-Librarians Meeting: A Victorian High Tea with Sherlock Holmes
S. Holmes Esq. Pub / Holiday Inn-Union Square
100 years for Sherlock Holmes; 50 years for the Golden Gate Bridge. Tthe 17th (Irregular) annual meeting took place in the Savoy Room, adjacent to the S. Holmes Esq. Pub on the 30th floor of the Holiday Inn-Union Square. The program included a Victorian high tea, announcements/toasts, Sherlockian door prizes, and a reading of Vincent Starrett's "221B". Presenters included Howard Lachtman, writer of "Sherlock Slept Here," on Conan Doyle's San Francisco Visits and Otto Penzler, publisher of the Mysterious Press, on the increasing popularity of mystery fiction. Local arrangements thanks to Eugenia Winter for her spectacular planning.
