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Tuesday, May 30, 2023
Quonset Hut
Did nudist camps use quonset huts? Maybe he's military, but the huts
look like beat up war surplus items. We still have businesses here
in East Hawaii in units like these, but they are in better condition.
Let's talk huts. The Quonset hut was first manufactured in 1941 by the US Navy which needed an easily transportable supply of accommodation and administration offices as America rearmed and which possibly explains their presence in Hawaii. The design was based on the British WWI Nissen hut, designed by American-born Major Peter Norman Nissen, who served in the Canadian forces. The Nissen huts were sold off by the Ministry of Defence after WWII and in Wiltshire, where there was a huge military presence, they abounded, and were used as garages, potting sheds, military cadet training centres, as well as homes. During my youth in Wiltshire, I met a delightful family of true eccentrics, who lived just outside the town where my school was. He was a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who kept ferrets and raced pigeons and had manufactured Nissen huts in the war, she was very upper-class - of the Protestant Irish Ascendancy - who bombed around Wiltshire in a little wooden-framed Morris Minor with a scarf over her hair like the Queen. Their eldest son served on the Royal Yacht, the second son was at Cambridge and married a pig-farmer's daughter. They bought a huge parcel of partly wooded land and erected a warren of interconnecting Nissen huts. It was a bizarre experience to walk in and be confronted with Persian carpets and Georgian antiques. I have never known a happier family.
The above image really is my favourite of today's series. It captures the labouring musculature beautifully and the image has wonderful fluidity and movement. I just wish all those Nissen huts in Wiltshire had him working out in front of them!
What interesting people! I sold a Saint Bernard puppy to a couple outside Austin who lived in two mismatched halves of a double wide mobile home. There had been a tornado at the place that sold them, and they got a huge discount for buying the remants of two partially destroyed double wides. The floor plans did not match up, and the interior was a confusing warren with illogically terminating walls and dead spaces.
I ended up having to go back there with the police because they had gone on a bad check writing spree, and I was the only victim of their fraud who had actually been to the place. They had used a fake address to open the account at the bank upon which they wrote close to $100,000 in worthless paper. Although they wouldn't tell me, I got the feeling that the mismatched double wide was a big chunk of that sum. The dog seemed happy, but the cops suggested that I take him as the owners would be in jail for some time, so I found him a new home.
The shadow of the barbell is interesting. Handsome young man!
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DeleteLet's talk huts. The Quonset hut was first manufactured in 1941 by the US Navy which needed an easily transportable supply of accommodation and administration offices as America rearmed and which possibly explains their presence in Hawaii. The design was based on the British WWI Nissen hut, designed by American-born Major Peter Norman Nissen, who served in the Canadian forces. The Nissen huts were sold off by the Ministry of Defence after WWII and in Wiltshire, where there was a huge military presence, they abounded, and were used as garages, potting sheds, military cadet training centres, as well as homes. During my youth in Wiltshire, I met a delightful family of true eccentrics, who lived just outside the town where my school was. He was a down-to-earth Yorkshireman who kept ferrets and raced pigeons and had manufactured Nissen huts in the war, she was very upper-class - of the Protestant Irish Ascendancy - who bombed around Wiltshire in a little wooden-framed Morris Minor with a scarf over her hair like the Queen. Their eldest son served on the Royal Yacht, the second son was at Cambridge and married a pig-farmer's daughter. They bought a huge parcel of partly wooded land and erected a warren of interconnecting Nissen huts. It was a bizarre experience to walk in and be confronted with Persian carpets and Georgian antiques. I have never known a happier family.
ReplyDeleteThe above image really is my favourite of today's series. It captures the labouring musculature beautifully and the image has wonderful fluidity and movement. I just wish all those Nissen huts in Wiltshire had him working out in front of them!
What interesting people! I sold a Saint Bernard puppy to a couple outside Austin who lived in two mismatched halves of a double wide mobile home. There had been a tornado at the place that sold them, and they got a huge discount for buying the remants of two partially destroyed double wides. The floor plans did not match up, and the interior was a confusing warren with illogically terminating walls and dead spaces.
DeleteI ended up having to go back there with the police because they had gone on a bad check writing spree, and I was the only victim of their fraud who had actually been to the place. They had used a fake address to open the account at the bank upon which they wrote close to $100,000 in worthless paper. Although they wouldn't tell me, I got the feeling that the mismatched double wide was a big chunk of that sum. The dog seemed happy, but the cops suggested that I take him as the owners would be in jail for some time, so I found him a new home.