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Title: Quonset Hut In rural communities
Post by: roadman65 on June 09, 2024, 07:17:09 PM
https://www.flickr.com/photos/54480415@N08/53774043591
One of the things I enjoy to see is the same buildings used in Gomer Pyle USMC ( the sixties situation comedy) in travels around the country.

Most of my finds are in rural areas like this one on US 60 in Afton, OK.

How many others exist out there?

Title: Re: Quonset Hut In rural communities
Post by: SectorZ on June 09, 2024, 07:19:58 PM
There was one on the property behind me until the early 2000's when it was torn down and rebuilt as a standard garage. I don't know how long it had been there before that but probably decades.
Title: Re: Quonset Hut In rural communities
Post by: mgk920 on June 09, 2024, 11:04:25 PM
There is one across the tracks from the Waupaca, WI VRF (Virtual RailFan) cameras.

There were a lot of them that were made available to the public as surplus when WWII ended.

There are also new versions that are commercially available, especially marketed as small airport hangars.

Mike
Title: Re: Quonset Hut In rural communities
Post by: ErmineNotyours on June 10, 2024, 11:02:43 PM
There are a few World War II-era Quonset huts in unredeveloped commercial districts:  Pacific Highway South near Des Moines, Washington. (https://maps.app.goo.gl/K2zLcSTsfgRvpUVv5)
Title: Re: Quonset Hut In rural communities
Post by: JayhawkCO on June 10, 2024, 11:25:08 PM
There a bunch in Adak, AK where I'll be visiting in a little over a month.
Title: Re: Quonset Hut In rural communities
Post by: Scott5114 on June 11, 2024, 03:37:34 AM
There are quite a few of them in Goldsby, OK. They're often used as hangars for small airplanes, or else as sheds for agricultural machinery.
Title: Re: Quonset Hut In rural communities
Post by: mgk920 on June 11, 2024, 12:07:13 PM
In my hometown (City of Appleton, WI):  https://maps.app.goo.gl/zmhkDTrp4UVTAvH48

Mike
Title: Re: Quonset Hut In rural communities
Post by: Sctvhound on June 11, 2024, 11:16:19 PM
Until 2002, WCBD-TV, the NBC in Charleston, SC had their studios in an old Quonset hut.

Title: Re: Quonset Hut In rural communities
Post by: steviep24 on June 15, 2024, 01:28:01 PM
Timber Ridge Golf Course near Spencerport, NY (on NY104) has two of those buildings. They keep golf carts and other equipment in there.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2232585,-77.8674291,3a,15y,214.67h,91.28t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCkrMYsuzF6Gmss4xEl47Pg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DCkrMYsuzF6Gmss4xEl47Pg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D214.6711432817159%26pitch%3D-1.283249691055829%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&coh=205410&entry=ttu
Title: Re: Quonset Hut In rural communities
Post by: mgk920 on June 15, 2024, 01:35:17 PM
Quote from: steviep24 on June 15, 2024, 01:28:01 PMTimber Ridge Golf Course near Spencerport, NY (on NY104) has two of those buildings. They keep golf carts and other equipment in there.

https://www.google.com/maps/@43.2232585,-77.8674291,3a,37.5y,213.41h,86.14t/data=!3m7!1e1!3m5!1sCkrMYsuzF6Gmss4xEl47Pg!2e0!6shttps:%2F%2Fstreetviewpixels-pa.googleapis.com%2Fv1%2Fthumbnail%3Fpanoid%3DCkrMYsuzF6Gmss4xEl47Pg%26cb_client%3Dmaps_sv.share%26w%3D900%26h%3D600%26yaw%3D213.41328250679572%26pitch%3D3.860187763043598%26thumbfov%3D90!7i16384!8i8192?authuser=0&coh=205410&entry=ttu

Those look like the newer design commercially available ones.

Mike