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Historical Photos of the Building

"In the Beginning..."

First, you need to have a good roof, especially with a 1927 Building. This, of course, became a yearly task. Deacon Sheehan took charge of this for years.

Power Washing the Outside of the Building

Repairing all Wall Damage Before Painting

Replace all old chairs with new chairs

Paint over old colors inside

Build Ramp to Stage and Altar Floor Repair

Paint and seal outside of church

Remember the Roof?

While coming down from the roof, Rev takes a fall. If not for the ceiling joists, Rev would have fallen 35 ft to the floor. To what end, who knows? The part of Rev that fell through the ceiling started a peeling effect on the plaster as you can see in the photos. Rev lived with minor injuries and a new path of repair had to be taken, as we will share in the next photos.

The Damage

Ceiling plaster cleanup - Balcony first, then we built a ramp to move plaster to the main floor.

The great guys from East Bay Scaffolding Arrive

Sheet Rocking the Ceiling

Repairing all the damage to the moldings and reinforce the old plaster with 16GA strapping (Check this word, can't read on paper)

Prime and paint the gold ceiling molding

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Masking the gold ceiling moldings to ready for ceiling color

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Sealing and painting the sky blue color

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Painting the clouds in the sky ceiling

First look at the new ceiling from the main floor as the platform section of the scaffold is removed

Prime and repair organ grills

Organ grills got the "Gold Back" along with the ceiling and the moldings.

You can't buy them so we learn and make copies of moldings for the "Proscenium Arch" along with organ grill damage repair along with a little "Griffin Repair."

As we start on the Proscenium Arch work we felt the NASA picture of the Earth from space would work in the middle so we had to make one. At the same time we had to have angels.

Of course it's very cold inside and even after we made the molds and filled them with plaster, in order to dry them we had to make a dryingroom which was done in the ladies rest roomas seen with a heater under a grate we made. Of course we kept working on our "Angels."