Yes, Mable There are Actual Rooms in Those Towers — A Tour of Level “A”
One of the most frequent questions that I am asked is: “When are they going to start making rooms?” Another question is: “Have the workers started to put up walls? The answer to both questions is Yes. For the most part, level “A” is walled in. The maze is complete. Help! Sometimes I need a map to get where I am going. Some of the rooms have doors with locks. If level “A” had flooring, ceilings, and proper lighting, the rooms would appear ready for the designated furnishings and/or equipment. The rest of the floors (levels 1 – 4) in the podium have the majority of the galvanized steel studs up, which define all of the rooms. In a few areas, some drywall has been placed to strengthen sections before the rest of the drywall is installed.
An example of some rooms with doors and locks. The lighting at the moment is not so great.
I am Persona Non-Grata in These Two Rooms — The Sign Says it All!!
Just a few days before these two rooms were energized, I had an opportunity to have one last walkabout. Should I ever want to enter these rooms again, I will have to have a sub-contractor escort.
The Main Electrical Normal Power Room
The Main Electrical Emergency Power Room
The Adult Kitchen
The featured image depicts the northeast side of the adult kitchen, which will include tray assembly, wash areas for pots, dishes, and carts. Beyond this area, there will be designated sections for food prep and cooking. Along the north wall, the freezers, coolers, and storage will be located. Down the west wall will be the coolers for fruits and vegetables, dairy products, and various type of fruit juices, milk, and other types of drinks. In a long narrow room, just to the west, there will be a space for receiving breakdown and designated sections for dry food and other food supplies.
Behind where the featured image was taken there are the following areas: (1) The soiled cart holding area, (2) the food cart wash, and (3) the trash holding room.A view of the kitchen from the northwest side from a cooler platform.Looking across the kitchen from the Receiving/Breakdown area. Just past the double doors and to the left will be the cooler for the finished foods, To the right is an office (single door) and a work station room behind the three windows. Behind these rooms will be more work stations, a conference room, and a cart distribution room.Looking south from the tray assembly area, the first door on the right goes into a workstation room, the second door leads into a conference room. To the right and out of view is the workstation room with the three windows. Down the hall to the right (just after the partial wall jut out) is the cart distribution area and the 2-stop hydraulic kitchen elevators. Beyond the corridor and through the double doors is the Children’s Kitchen.To the left is the 2-stop hydraulic kitchen elevators. To the right is the cart distribution area. This elevator is a service elevator that only goes to the ground floor where the servery is located.Just west of the adult kitchen this double-door corridor running north to south leads to the receiving breakdown room, and storage at the far end of the hall.
The Children’s Kitchen
Across the main east-west corridor just south of the adult kitchen lies the children’s kitchen. Along the back wall to the south will be the coolers, freezer, and chefs cooler. In front of the cooler will be the prep area. To the far left on the other side of the blank wall will be the dish and pot wash area. More to the center of the room will be the cooking area, and beyond more to the center will be space for tray assembly. To the far right will be workstation offices.On the south side or back wall will be: (1) a walk-in chef’s cooler, and (2) a cooler for bulk foods that require refrigeration. Access to coolers 1 and 2 will be via sliding doors. (3) will be the freezer area. (4) is the corner of what will be a workstation office.From the east side of the children’s kitchen, we come across the space for the future cooking area. On the other side of the vertical pipes os the designated tray assembly area. Beyond the tray assembly are: (1) workstation office with a window, (2) open workstation, (3) hall door that leads to the room service call center office, an office, and out to the dry storage kitchen supplies, (4) a door that leads to a conference room where there will be a copy/print/fax station, and (5) behind the wall will be two staff unisex restrooms, lockers, and a staff break room. This will be the children’s kitchen dish washroom. At the far side of the room, there are two doors, the one on the left will be used for storing cleaning supplies. The door on the right will open to the housekeeping room. At the far left will be a room for the trash compactor. The door and the end of the wall to the right (just beyond the broom leaning against the wall), leads to the children’s kitchen prep area.Facing north from the dishwash area there are four areas to consider: (1) the doorway to the cooking side of the kitchen, (2) the backside of the trash holding room, (3) the cart wash room, and (4) the double doors will open up to the trash compactor.Closing in a bit on the previous image, we are able to poke around a corner, which reveals more of the corridor. (1) again is the doorway to the cooking side of the kitchen. (2) Several banks of electrical panels are on the left side of the hall. (3) The double doors that lead out to the main east-west corridor. On the other side of the corridor are double doors that lead into the cart wash side and trash compactor room for the adult kitchen.
After graduate school Dennis accepted a position at Loma Linda University. He worked there for 42 years in the areas of administration and financial management, also teaching accounting and management to dietetic students at the School of Public Health. Through the years Dennis has chronicled the growth of the campus, including the construction of the Drayson Center and the Centennial Complex and the razing of Gentry Gym. He is the author of "The Mound City Chronicles: A Pictorial History of Loma Linda University, A Health Sciences Institution 1905 - 2005." dEp 09.30.2016 🔨
