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September 1941. Hermiston, Oregon. "When workmen at the Umatilla ordnance depot broke a world record by pouring concrete for twenty-four igloos in twenty-four hours, the contractor threw a beer party for them." (The "igloos" were concrete bunkers for storing munitions.) Medium format acetate negative by Russell Lee. View full size.
Beer on the roof from Shawshank redemption movie comes to mind.
History and future of the former ordnance depot here.
In March 1944, one of the concrete igloos exploded while being loaded with 500-pound bombs, killing six workers.
The depot closed in 2012, but today 1001 igloos remain on the site. "Nearly all of them are empty," according to the Oregon Encyclopedia.
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