The Italian-run shop has an old school look, but this time the monochrome-tiled floor and Formica tables are genuinely vintage.

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One carpet, the size of a prayer rug, lay in the center of the tiled floor as if concealing an imperfection or some secret passage.

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For her part, Hester had given herself the task of restoring Oscarey church, scraping the tiled floor, washing the altar cloths, polishing the neglected pews and brass.

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The decor, such as it is, dates back to its founding in the early 1900s and doesn't add up to much more than mirrors interspersed with Gothic columns and a pale tiled floor.

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But visit Rockwell's Engineering Lab 36, down a tiled-floor corridor and behind a nondescript door.

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But he was introduced to Hudson's group last month, and volunteers have since replaced and tiled his bathroom floor, fixed his leaky kitchen faucet and installed a wheelchair ramp at the front entrance of his home.

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