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WWII vintage Quonset. Home sweet.
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In Twin Lakes, CO (pop app. 171) there was a guy living in what appeared to be an old shipping container (could have been an old cardboard compactor, I guess), that had been converted into a house. Another resident had a fence made of old stair balusters - no two of which were the same, and each painted a different color. A colorful bunch, to say the least.
Does that mean you stayed there? We had breakfast at a fine little diner in Talkeetna a long time ago. It had quite a collection of interesting old newspaper articles and pictures of climbers destined for Denali posted on the walls. Stories and pictures of some who didn't make it back also. There's something special about being around people who live around there full time. Hearty might not even be the word.
Over here we call them Nissen huts after Major Peter Nissen who invented them in 1916.
During WWII there also were Romney huts which are basically the same only bigger. 6 of those still survive.
Some are still around, usually used as scout halls.
I spent many hours in this theater through out the 70's. It is still operating as a movie theater.
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
That looks likes the theater I used to go to in a little town by the Russian River in Sonoma County, Calif. (Monte Rio or something like that, if I remember correctly...).
They used to show a lot of old classics and cult movies. We were able to bring in alcohol and openly smoke dope in there. I used to haul their garbage away for something like $20.00 and free admission. Those were the days. When were you hanging out there?
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
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I rode and raced bicycles all around California during 1990's. Sonoma County was one of my favorite places to ride in.
Sid Bartlett, a Monte Rio merchant, bought a surplus Quonset hut from the U.S. Navy in 1949 and began converting it into a movie theater, which opened the following year.[1]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rio_Theater_%28Monte_Rio%29
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That fabric is from Cristo's Running Fence project, I helped install those seats, I also worked on the Running Fence.
"Trying is the first step towards failure."
Homer Simpson
"The Rio continues to house the largest intact and continuous piece of the Christos' Running Fence in the world.[1]"
From the Wikipedia page.
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