Sentences with phrase «quonset huts»

TELLURIDE, Colo. — When I first came to the Telluride Film Festival in 1980, screenings were held in Quonset huts and city parks, the old Nugget theater on Main Street, and in the faded glory of the tiny Sheridan Opera House, built when this was a boom town in mining days.

Across the meadow from Stamets» home sits a cluster of hangar - size white metal sheds and Quonset huts: Fungi Perfecti's offices, labs and grow rooms.

«Goose Tatum claimed he was only ever stopped once,» Varnell remembers, «and that was at a small town in Arkansas where the gym consisted of two Quonset huts, a basket in each, joined by a narrow hallway.

Less than a year later, New York City called for the delivery of 2,000 Quonset huts — prefabricated frame structures that were used in the war — to a 75 - acre site in Canarsie to house veterans.

Parsons is the founder of the Infinite Monkey Theorem (IMT), an urban Colorado winery that he founded in 2008 in a Quonset hut in downtown Denver.

He still calls it a tent, but it is actually an aluminum Quonset hut.

As we recall, the original 1941 Jeep looked as if someone had cut up some steel from a Quonset hut and bashed it into place around the chassis with a hammer.

they literally were in and under a building (a big steel quonset hut) just a cyclone fence from my backyard and our garden.

The two marines sat with the three sailors on the bunks in the Quonset hut for transient enlisted men, watching the air conditioner drip water into a coffee can and drinking beer.

Hundreds of animals are in foster homes, and shelter staff have had to be creative in order to house the overabundance of animals sleeping under AAC's quonset hut roofs.

Starting with a ready - made quonset hut, since destroyed, it takes a cylindrical shape interrupted by long windows.

With the aid of a Chinati shape - finding booklet, we identified the semicircle of the artillery shed's Quonset hut roofs, the rectangular 100 works in mill aluminum, the squares within Judd's concrete works and so forth.

After 10 December: Calder visits Miró at his Montmartre studio, «a sort of metal tunnel, a kind of Quonset hut.»

Quonset hut.

(That structure — an innovative experiment in low - cost construction that resembled a Quonset hut — was callously demolished in 1985.)

Whether it be a pre-historic pueblo, Colonial - era slave quarters, World War II Quonset hut, or a Brutalist tower is irrelevant, as long as it fits the designation of being unique and historically relevant.

The industrial, prefab nature of the Quonset hut home prompted the homeowners to use corrugated metal panels (available in most building - supply stores) on the kitchen island and surrounding cabinetry, but the sleek room is anything but aloof.