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Inside the museum, pale maple floors, terra-cotta tile and fiber matting create a neutral background for the displays. What saves it from being merely one more ocean of architectural white space is a soaring four-story atrium- lobby, dominated by a magnificent oval staircase that leads to the exhibit levels. "What we wanted," says Smith, "was a simple environment that would be a good backdrop for our exhibits...
...floor carpeted in bilious green, under a ceiling of dingy acoustical tile, a few score of Grossinger veterans and journalists gathered to witness the destruction of an old building and an invocation of Jennie's sacred memory. "I think she'd be delighted today," said William Meyer, the confident, youthful president of Servico. He went on to describe the changes planned for the next year: the gourmet dining room, the spa, the whirlpool, the thermal wrap, the two-bedroom condos that would go for $125,000 each, the 8,000-sq.-ft. "action lounge" targeted to young people...
They include a wig curler, a clay tile marred by a cat's footprint, pieces of dishes and pipestems, meat bones and the wreckage of the original College building, which literally fell apart in the late 17th century...
Then there is White, "part of the mystery of the show," as Sajak sees it. A native of North Myrtle Beach, S.C., she drove to Hollywood in a U-Haul in 1980, landed a couple of movie bit roles, and was hired as Wheel's tile- turning hostess in 1982. "Turning letters isn't a hard job," admits White, 29. "But you do have to use your peripheral vision and listen to everything." White is quite proud of her performance: "I've never turned over a wrong tile." Indeed, her only major gaffe was the time she tripped and fell...
...restoration is sensitive and, for the most part, scrupulous. Always there are quibbles: Why have the hoteliers covered the tile walls of a main hallway with cheesy green felt? In the 65-ft.-high barrel-vaulted Grand Hall, however, the strict preservationists were indulged. The gilt is real gold leaf. Artisans worked 3,000 hours fixing up the large pictorial stained-glass window. The marble for the floors is from the same French quarry used by the station's builders. Indeed, to the modern eye, accustomed to cleaner colors and lines, the period hues and ornamental density of this main...