William Gillette, not the razor king, the actor, (you mean there was an
actor William Gillette, why yes there was), made a fortune portraying
Sherlock Holmes on stage, and even screen, (a Silent Film of him doing
so was recently discovered), while the ink was still wet so to speak.
Well, he was also a technical genius for his time, but he's remembered
for two things, when he's remembered, Sherlock Holmes*, and the "Castle"
He used that fortune to build himself.
He also used that fortune to indulge his hobbies, one of which was a
model railroad about 1/10 scale fully capable of carrying passengers, it
ran in about a three mile loop, some of it double tracked. That stone
building was the main station where his guests could embark for rides on
one of his trains to tour his estate. It seems there was a lot of money
in portraying Sherlock Holmes, well that and inventing all manner of
theatrical special effects and lighting devices.
Pretty much every thing visual about Sherlock Holmes we think of today
comes from Gillette's portrayal. The deerstalker hat, that pretty much
all Sherlock's have worn since, was first employed by Gillette. Conan
Doyle never once mentioned it in his stories, and I think he may have
hated it.
On 10/26/2016 1:33 AM, Malcolm Smith wrote:
P.J. Alling wrote:
No, not that Grand Central Station, this one.
https://pdml.updog.co/webster26/PESO%20--%20backentrancetogcs.html
Yet another of my rejects for Iconic Places, once again too much explanation
required for it to be Iconic.
Equipment: Pentax K-5II w/smc Pentax FA 20-35mm f4.0.
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Interesting light playing across the middle of the support columns; I like
the red plant growing over the stonework. I'd like to know more about it.
Malcolm
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