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D77357-6
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- 1953-08-14 (Creation)
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Concrete Forms Inc.: progress on the "Sand Bunker," the exterior retaining wall at Glacier Sand & Gravel Co.'s Steilacoom plant. Ordered by Symons Clamp and Mfg. Co. of Chicago, Illinois. The 40 foot high "S" shaped retaining walls were designed to hold raw materials. One wall was 190 feet long, the other 400 feet long with the wall's curves shaped to a radius of 15 1/2 feet. Regular forms would not work for this unusual design, so Concrete Forms Inc. designed these two foot wide prefabricated plywood panels to be used as forms.Two hundred, twenty five tons of steel from Bethlehem's Seattle plant were then used for reinforcing before the poring of the concrete. The steel had to be bent to fit the unique curvature of the forms. (TNT 10/25/1953, pg. C-13)
Construction--1950-1960; Glacier Sand & Gravel Co. (Steilacoom); Progress photographs;