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lightbulb diversity

Evidently, they bought different kinds with different color temperatures over time. This hotel (Istanbul Hilton, now it prolly has a qualifier since there's more than one) has been there since the '50s and perhaps less popular rooms still have incandescent bulbs?

 

Addendum: yes, indeed, it's called "Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus" now. It has a Wikipedia page, even, with this fun Cold War tidbit about how/why it was built:

 

John Wilson Houser, vice-president of Hilton International, wrote a letter to Conrad N. Hilton on June 23, 1951 about the Soviet Union's intention to build a 1,000-room hotel in Istanbul similar to the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York City, plans of which he had seen. Hilton Istanbul Bosphorus project thus became a factor in the Cold War US–Soviet rivalry.

 

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