Vintage Rose Tea Room and the Levoy

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Here is a  report about the cleaning out of the Vintage Rose Tea Room. As you know the building was damaged heavily when the Levoy Collapsed earlier this month. Here is a report I received from the scene.

The Tea room was essentially cleaned out on Friday. Under the supervision of an engineer, workers carried a large portion of the contents of the Vintage Rose Tea Room out of the building and stacked it on High Street. Not everything was saved because the collapse of the rear corner of the building made it unsafe to go to the back of the building.
Gail and her husband supervised the packing up of the contents in a large moving van. Friends and Levoy reps carried a lot of the boxes. Gail was in good spirits and the weather cooperated.  It’s possible that during the demolition process other items may be recovered but it is gratifying that most of the store was saved, Even the hanging sign was removed.

This was ambitious project and I am glad that most of the items were saved. See more photos on my companion  Picasa photo site. Please share!  Despite this setback word has it that this project is a go. This progress will go on even if the  naysayers want it to fail. The Levoy organizers even are turning lemons to lemonade by selling brick for $10 bucks. They are being sold at Steelman Photo and at the RRCA.  When I get up some cash, I plan to get one. Here is a  News 40 Report about this brick sale.  More about the Levoy can be seen at   Carl Johnson's website as well.