Most interesting! I believe I've seen structures like that in New Jersey.
In the photo of the Holiday Inn Express, I'm deeply puzzled at the misspelling--Holidday. Did the hotel really allow a mistake in their permanent sign?
In Victoria, BC, Canada, a Quonset-style storage building from WW2 was converted to a movie theatre, eventually called a second-run/art house called the Roxy. In the 90s it was a rite of passage to go a cheap weeknight double bill in a sketchy part of town. Until last year it housed a theatre company. 2657 Quadra St
Addison, I’m not an expert on the history of Quonset hut construction types but I have noticed that the old (WWII era) style are built with a series of small, curved steel beams overlain with corrugated metal. The current design is a series of deep-V corrugated bents that bolt together in sections and are self-supporting. Sometimes they have straight sections for vertical walls or a sort of gambrel roof profile; not always a semicircular cross section.
The buildings in your Street view photos from the past decade are the modern type, and are much taller than the ones used as housing in the historic photos. These newer ones may harken back to the postwar housing but they dont look like actual relics of it.
Nevertheless, I wasn’t aware of the temporary Quonset hut housing program, so thanks for that history and your thoughts on it. It reminds me of FEMA trailers (and Katrina Cottages.)
Michigan State University had medium size quonset huts when I first started college. Must be on-line articles. I think they were family housing post WW2. The local Public TV/Radio station, WKAR, used them to about 1982 when they built a new facility. As a farm kid in 1970's we disassembled the Wonder Bar and Grill in Lansing that was a large quonset hut and reassembled it on the family farm outside Stockbridge to large equipment storage. It still stands today!
Speaking of WWII temporary military construction, I was born in an Air Force Base Hospital that was vintage WWII temporary construction. Literally built from 2X4s and plywood. I continued to receive my medical there care there until about 1960. Even as a 10-year-old, the floors creaked loudly every time you put your foot down. I have never heard the like since.
The site is now grassy lawn. I like to point to the empty space and say, “That's where I was born.”
Most interesting! I believe I've seen structures like that in New Jersey.
In the photo of the Holiday Inn Express, I'm deeply puzzled at the misspelling--Holidday. Did the hotel really allow a mistake in their permanent sign?
That's an artifact resulting from the mapping software stitching together multiple images into the singular image shown.
Helpful! Thanks.
In Victoria, BC, Canada, a Quonset-style storage building from WW2 was converted to a movie theatre, eventually called a second-run/art house called the Roxy. In the 90s it was a rite of passage to go a cheap weeknight double bill in a sketchy part of town. Until last year it housed a theatre company. 2657 Quadra St
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Addison, I’m not an expert on the history of Quonset hut construction types but I have noticed that the old (WWII era) style are built with a series of small, curved steel beams overlain with corrugated metal. The current design is a series of deep-V corrugated bents that bolt together in sections and are self-supporting. Sometimes they have straight sections for vertical walls or a sort of gambrel roof profile; not always a semicircular cross section.
The buildings in your Street view photos from the past decade are the modern type, and are much taller than the ones used as housing in the historic photos. These newer ones may harken back to the postwar housing but they dont look like actual relics of it.
Nevertheless, I wasn’t aware of the temporary Quonset hut housing program, so thanks for that history and your thoughts on it. It reminds me of FEMA trailers (and Katrina Cottages.)
Michigan State University had medium size quonset huts when I first started college. Must be on-line articles. I think they were family housing post WW2. The local Public TV/Radio station, WKAR, used them to about 1982 when they built a new facility. As a farm kid in 1970's we disassembled the Wonder Bar and Grill in Lansing that was a large quonset hut and reassembled it on the family farm outside Stockbridge to large equipment storage. It still stands today!
Speaking of WWII temporary military construction, I was born in an Air Force Base Hospital that was vintage WWII temporary construction. Literally built from 2X4s and plywood. I continued to receive my medical there care there until about 1960. Even as a 10-year-old, the floors creaked loudly every time you put your foot down. I have never heard the like since.
The site is now grassy lawn. I like to point to the empty space and say, “That's where I was born.”