An old Boeing factory in Seattle is being clear out to make room for a strip shopping center ( or something to that effect , I ’m sure ) . But what ’s noteworthy is that thefactory lumber is being salvagedto build homes with .
According to Inhabitat , theDuluth Timber Companyare the ones recover the wood from the 1.7 million sq.ft . facility that helped progress over 7000 B-17 and B-29 Bombers . Even cooler is that a fake residential neighborhood was work up on top of the manufacturing plant to disguise it and protect against opposition attack during WWII .
The construction ’s unique role in history start when John Stewart Detlie , a Hollywood exercise set designer , helped “ obliterate ” the plant using invention techniques used for film . The simulated lodging development covered nearly 26 acres with netting , plyboard and wimp telegram on top of the roof to foil bombing runs by Japanese forces . One fake rooftop corner street sign read “ Synthetic St. & Burlap Blvd . ” The flora produced up to a astounding 362 planes a month , mostly the B-17 and B-29 Flying Fortress . The construction was also one of the big in the news with some of the longest individual - duad trusses in its time .
Tell me you do n’t want a place made of that . [ Inhabitat ]
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