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Rodger Fry, Bruce Grim, Mike Anderson and Patrick Wiggins mark the location of the corners of the building.
Flags indicate the centerline of the concrete slab on which the Clements scope will move. 31 OCT 2016
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Rodger Fry used his computer skills to imagine what the finished telescope and building might look like. 14 NOV 2016
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Rodger Fry's diagram showing the facility's dimensions. 14 NOV 2016
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Tooele Transcript Bulletin announcement of the official ground breaking. 16 MAR 2017
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Rodger Fry addresses the crowd at the ground-breaking ceremony. Siegfried Jachman photo. 18 MAR 2017
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Mike Clements (in hard hat) acknowledges applause from the crowd at the ground-breaking ceremony. 18 MAR 2017
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Mike
Clements, Tooele County Recorder/Surveyor Jerry Houghton, Rodger Fry,
Stansbury Park Special Services District's Glenn Oscarson, Executive Director of the Stansbury Park Service Agency
Randy Jones-Flynn, Tooele County
Commissioner Shawn Milne and Patrick Wiggins. Siegfried Jachman
photo. 18 MAR 2017
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"First Dig!" Rodger Fry, Glenn Oscarson, Shawn Milne and Mike Clements. 18 MAR 2017
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Results of the "First Dig" (the ground was hard!). 18 MAR 2017
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Shovel head autographed by those who took part in the "First Dig". 18 MAR 2017
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Rodger
Fry is surrounded by flags marking the circumference of the concrete
circle the Clements scope will operate on. 01 APR 2017
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Aerial view of SPOC. Look close to see flags marking the corners of the building and the circumference of the concrete
circle. 04 APR 2017
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View to the NW. Flags & string mark to outline of the building. 08 APR 2017
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Lots of dirt got moved today. 10 APR 2017
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View to SE of footing trenches. 10 APR 2017
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View to NE of footing trenches. 10 APR 2017
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Sunset aerial view. 10 APR 2017
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Footing trenches with rebar in place looking south. 11 APR 2017
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Looking NW. 11 APR 2017
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South footing trench looking west with rebar in place and old sprinkler line that was removed later. 11 APR 2017
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North trench looking east. 11 APR 2017
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East trench looking north. 12 APR 2017
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North trench looking east. 12 APR 2017
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South trench looking east. 12 APR 2017
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West trench looking north. 12 APR 2017
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Building inspector (r) speaking with one of the construction crew. 13 APR 2017
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Tying rebar. 14 APR 2017
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East trench looking south with footing concrete poured. 14 APR 2017
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North trench looking east with footing concrete poured. 14 APR 2017
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South trench looking east with footing concrete poured. 14 APR 2017
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West trench looking north with footing concrete poured. 14 APR 2017
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East trench looking south with footing concrete poured. 15 APR 2017
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North trench looking east with footing concrete poured. 15 APR 2017
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Looking NW with footing concrete poured. 15 APR 2017
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West trench looking north with footing concrete poured. 15 APR 2017
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Tying rebar. 17 APR 2017
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Crew working on wall rebar and forms. 19 APR 2017
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Forms going up. 19 APR 2017
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East wall forms. 20 APR 2017
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Steel
Building materials have arrived (it is hard to conceive that the entire
steel building is in those small piles). 21 APR 2017
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Building materials have arrived. 21 APR 2017
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Aerial view. 21 APR 2017
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Rodger Fry inspecting the forms. 22 APR 2017
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West and south walls. 22 APR 2017
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North and west walls. 22 APR 2017
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North and east walls. 22 APR 2017
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Looking north. 22 APR 2017
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Rodger Fry speaking with one of the construction crew (“Yo habla moi pequeño Espanol!”) 22 APR 2017
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Lots of progress on the forms today. 23 APR 2017
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Inside SE corner. 23 APR 2017
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Inside SW corner. 23 APR 2017
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Inside NW corner. 23 APR 2017
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Inside NE corner. 23 APR 2017
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Mike Clements is on the scene. 25 APR 2017
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Pouring the first concrete for the walls. 26 APR 2017
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Bruce Grim, Rodger Fry, Patrick Wiggins and Mike Clements. 26 APR 2017
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Rodger Fry observing the construction crew. 26 APR 2017
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Concrete pumping truck boom. 26 APR 2017
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Rodger Fry and Mike Clements "supervising". 26 APR 2017
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Some of the locals. 26 APR 2017
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Mike Clements being interviewed as Rodger Fry watches. 26 APR 2017
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Mike Clements being interviewed. 26 APR 2017
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Concrete pumper truck is stuck in the mud. 26 APR 2017
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Concrete truck pulling the pumper truck out of the mud. 26 APR 2017
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Rodger Fry being interviewed. 26 APR 2017
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Rodger Fry being interviewed in the Grim bay while Mike Clements looks on. 26 APR 2017
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When the trucks could not get the concrete all the way to the top of the walls the crew used buckets... 26 APR 2017
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hauled them up and over the top. And those buckets full of
concrete were heavy. Talk about hard labor! 26 APR 2017
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Forms have been removed. 27 APR 2017
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Aerial view. 28 APR 2017