The major purpose of this web site is to serve as a home base and launching pad for a number of Literary Societies and Services, hence the name...      Currently, these are the Societies and Services we support: The Blustering Gales from the South-West (A Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Victoriana based Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars, located in the South-Bay region of Los Angeles County, in Southern California.) The Curious Collectors of Baker Street (The largest Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars in Southern California.) The Southwest Manuscripters (A veteran writers' group which hosts Ray Bradbury's visits to the Torrance area each year, and has been doing so since it began in 1949.) The Goose Club of the Alpha Inn The Goose Club of the Alpha Inn, founded in 1977, is one of several Sherlock Holmes societies based in the Los Angeles area. The Trained Cormorants (The oldest Scion Society of the Baker Street Irregulars in Southern California.)