As an interesting tidbit to add to the Quonset Hut thread, here in
Alaska, the army started surplussing out old Q-Huts and similar
buildings to civilian buyers after the war.  In addition, it was common
practice to scavenge Q-huts and other building materials from old
abandoned army bases.  Scavenged Q-huts were (and still are) especially
popular in rural Alaska where the cost of lumber and other building
materials can be astronomical.  Anyway, the point of all this is that
Quonsets became so ubiquitous in the Alaskan built landscape, that in
the 1950's, the Anchorage zoning committee banned quonset huts from the
city limits, a law which still stands today.


Kris Farmen
Northern Land Use Research, Inc.
Fairbanks, Alaska