Edward N. Allen, Reid Preist, and Dean McCurdy (from left) stand in front of a Cotten Brothers Mack truck which is transporting a new 90-foot "Porta Tower" bound for Packwood in mid-September of 1963. The top of the tower is extending beyond the truck cab. "Porta Towers" were mobile steel spar trees built in Tacoma by Star Iron & Steel. Mr. Allen was the president of Star Iron & Steel, Mr. Preist the inventor of the "Porta Tower" and president of Preist Companies of Port Angeles, and Mr. McCurdy, an engineer and designer of the tower. Reid Preist, a veteran of the logging industry, invented the "Porta Tower" in 1952 to answer the need for portable, easily raised and quickly rigged pre-fabricated towers. Since then, more than 100 of the self-erecting towers have been built. Photograph ordered by Star Iron & Steel. (TNT 10-13-63, B-9)
Steel; Trucks--Tacoma--1960-1970; Star Iron & Steel Co. (Tacoma); Allen, Edward N.; Preist, Reid; McCurdy, Dean; Lumber industry--1960-1970;