The Venice Place fireplace
I recently took a closer look at that strangely placed fireplace at Hutch's Venice Place apartment (strangely placed as it is against the street-side wall, with the pipe going out through the wall horizontally, but nothing resembling a chimney is visible on the outside).
There are only a couple of times we see it in the show, and even then it is a bit of a blur: in ”Survival” and ”Fatal Charm”.
After googling a bit I learned it is a Franklin stove (after Benjamin who developed it), also known as a Pennsylvania fireplace - a nice-looking compromise between a simple stove and a proper fireplace. Franklin stoves come in different styles and shapes, but the one Hutch has is very much like this one here (photo from an online sale):
Comparing the screencaps to some photos like this made sense of a couple of details of Hutch's stove. Firstly, the bi-fold doors are open both times we see it in the show. Secondly, there is a spark screen with a shiny metal handle in front of the stove.
Those details and the fact that there is a fireplace tool set mounted on the wall beside it definitely give the impression the stove is being used in spite of the missing chimney (also, no plants or misc stuff cluttering the top, like almost every other horizontal surface in that apartment!).
Of course I had to put the stove in use in S/H slash art (NSFW), now available in this year's Starsky and Hutch Advent Calendar.
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There are only a couple of times we see it in the show, and even then it is a bit of a blur: in ”Survival” and ”Fatal Charm”.
After googling a bit I learned it is a Franklin stove (after Benjamin who developed it), also known as a Pennsylvania fireplace - a nice-looking compromise between a simple stove and a proper fireplace. Franklin stoves come in different styles and shapes, but the one Hutch has is very much like this one here (photo from an online sale):
Comparing the screencaps to some photos like this made sense of a couple of details of Hutch's stove. Firstly, the bi-fold doors are open both times we see it in the show. Secondly, there is a spark screen with a shiny metal handle in front of the stove.
Those details and the fact that there is a fireplace tool set mounted on the wall beside it definitely give the impression the stove is being used in spite of the missing chimney (also, no plants or misc stuff cluttering the top, like almost every other horizontal surface in that apartment!).
Of course I had to put the stove in use in S/H slash art (NSFW), now available in this year's Starsky and Hutch Advent Calendar.
This entry was originally posted at https://mortmere.dreamwidth.org/17481.html. Comments are welcome here or there (using OpenID).