Comment on Comment

An email was received by yours truly from Vicki Steele after she tried to post a comment on the blog and somehow did not succeed. I reproduce below the comment she was trying to post. It refers to a comment on a prior blog posting about the ceiling of the main dining room at the renovated Faculty Club at:

https://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/05/an-inside-look-at-renovated-faculty-club.html. (Click on comment)*

The photo above was one of a series taken recently by yours truly which triggered the original anonymous comment. 

See also http://uclafacultyassociation.blogspot.com/2022/05/compare-and-contrast.html which shows the ceiling of another room before and after the renovation. 

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From Victoria Steele, Ph.D., Curator Emerita, UCLA Collections:

Hello, Anonymous. You must not be aware that the ceiling was originally painted white. Later it was partially stripped, so that it was neither "beautiful wood" or white, but a wood color that was splotched with white.

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Included with the email above was the picture below:

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We don't get a lot of comments on our blog posts. The Blogger platform on which this blog appears permits comments to be made anonymously. If you try and post a comment, there is a message that refers to not posting anonymously - a stipulation that was added when we began to get commercial comments, often posted anonymously. I have removed only commercial (advertising) comments that have occasionally been posted.

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Final note: This posting has been significantly changed from the original at the request of Vicki Steele who did not intend for her original email to me to be posted. At her request, I have posted the comment she later sent that with the wording that she unsuccessfully tried to post as a comment. 

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*The comment is reproduced below:

Anonymous said...

Wow, they painted over all the beautiful wood of the ceiling in the main dining room. Someone probably thought it was a "fresh, clean look" but what they achieved instead was a hospital cafeteria.

May 18, 2022 at 9:02 PM