Word: storeroom
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...when he lived in St. Louis. He moved to Portland and retired, but decided that he couldn't stand to be retired so he opened up this shop that I currently own part of. There's so much ancient stuff there. We have an incredibly old piano in our storeroom and nobody knows how it got there. We actually found a Tommy gun in there one time. We had a couple of police officers come in for tattoos and when they found out about it, one of them said, "Oh, you should bring it out and let me look...
...center of the country's restaurant scene is Sjávarkjallarinn (Seafood Cellar). Housed in the capital Reykjavík's oldest underground storeroom, which served as a stable in the late 18th century, the restaurant is known for its fusion of Asian flavors (think kaffir lime, star anise and yuzu) with fresh Icelandic fish, served within hours of being caught. The menu changes twice a month and recently included enticing entrées like a blue lingcod seasoned with red ginger, wasabi and shiso (a minty herb), and crispy salmon with soybeans, saffron and parsley. Other dishes, like...
...Dust, he shows dozens of the canisters in larger-than-life size, their turquoise, pink and gold colors so sumptuous they look more like oil paintings than photographs. On some of the canisters, white powdery corrosion oozes from cracks - the after-effects of regular flooding in their underground storeroom - creating geomorphic shapes in brilliant hues. The abstract beauty of the canisters is a jolting contrast to their grim origins. And to Maisel, that's the point. "It's about beauty and horror," he says. "It's a double-edged thing - seductive and disturbing...
...before Maisel was born. "Here was this very important piece of my family history and it was almost forgotten within a generation or two," he says. To their credit, officials at the Oregon State Hospital had neatly numbered and catalogued each cremated patient. But for decades they kept the storeroom of canisters a secret from the outside world. Even when Milos Forman shot the 1975 movie One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest in the hospital, and used several patients as his extras, the room's existence wasn't revealed...
...under new management, the hospital has decided to lift the shroud of secrecy around the storeroom and its contents. And Maisel's photos have prodded staff to release the records of some patients to relatives who can produce death certificates proving their family connections. One of those patients was Ada Winterburn, whose stay at the hospital was uncovered by distant cousin Katherine O'Connor as she researched her family history. O'Connor had previously asked to see Winterburn's records, but the hospital refused to share them with her - until Library of Dust was published...