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D151129-10
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- 1967-03-10 (Creation)
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On March 10, 1967 a lone figure (far left) was reduced to little more then a dark speck as he stood inside the first of two enormous Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corporation domes built on Tacoma's tideflats. The dome floor was covered with towering mounds of bauxite alumina ore from which aluminum was to be made. The storage facility was constructed to hold as much as 50,000+ tons of alumina. The dome was sheathed with aluminum and the laminated timber ribs extend from floor to ceiling. The Tacoma Kaiser plant closed in 2000; both this dome and its twin, which was built in 1971, were sold and dismantled in 2005. (Photograph ordered by Allen, Dorward & Scroggin, Portland.) (TNT 11-13-66, D-19)
Storage tanks--Tacoma; Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp. (Tacoma); Aluminum industry--Tacoma--1960-1970; Ceilings--Tacoma;