Harmons Observatory
Putting Up the Walls
27 AUG 2001 to 15 SEP 2001
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Concrete truck loading the concrete pumper. 27 AUG 2001 McNeil photo
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"First pour" handled by Gary Christley. 27 AUG 2001
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The pour continues. 27 AUG 2001
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CPC truck #2 joins in. 27 AUG 2001
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All three CPC trucks on scene. 27 AUG 2001
056
Gary Christley near the end of the pour with Steve Bonnette.
27 AUG 2001
057
Roger Butz tosses Gary Christley one of the many brackets to which
the roof track will be welded. 27 AUG 2001
058
Ken Harris tosses Gary Christley another bracket as Patrick Wiggins
gets another picture. 27 AUG 2001 McNeil photo
059
Gary Christley places one of the roof track brackets. 27
AUG 2001
060
Steve Bonnette works the top of the wall. 27 AUG 2001
061
The concrete pumper truck is stuck. 27 AUG 2001
062
VERY stuck! 27 AUG 2001
063
The $500 towing operation begins. 27 AUG 2001
Ron Ford's images of
the forms being removed, #s 058
through 061.
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Forms coming off. 28 AUG 2001
065
Boyd McNeil gets a picture of the scene. 28 AUG 2001
066
Richard Brady & Hank Williams remove forms. 28 AUG 2001
McNeil photo
067
Hank Williams, Ken Harris & Siegfried Jachmann load forms on
the truck. 28 AUG 2001 McNeil photo
068
Hank Williams removes a form. 28 AUG 2001 McNeil photo
069
Siegfried Jachmann hefts a form. 28 AUG 2001
070
Forms off & looking great!. 28 AUG 2001
071
Form remover crew Rashell & Richard Brady, Ken Harris, Siegfried
Jachmann, Boyd McNeil, Andy Bogdan and Ron Ford. 28 AUG
2001
McNeil photo by Roger Butz
072
Looking west through the control room into the Grim Scope bay.
28 AUG 2001
073
Looking west into the Ealing bay. 28 AUG 2001 McNeil
photo
074
Looking west. Ealing bay door in foreground, Grim Scope bay
door in the distance. 28 AUG 2001
075
Looking east through the control room into the Ealing bay.
28 AUG 2001
076
Looking southwest through the Grim Scope bay double door.
28 AUG 2001
077
View from the north. 07 SEP 2001
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View from the northeast. 07 SEP 2001
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View from the east. 07 SEP 2001
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View from the southeast. 07 SEP 2001
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View from the south. 07 SEP 2001
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View from the southwest. 07 SEP 2001
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View from the west. 07 SEP 2001
084
View from the northwest. 07 SEP 2001
085
Grinding the wall seams. 15 SEP 2001 McNeil photo
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A cloud of dust as the wall seams are ground flush with the rest
of the wall. 15 SEP 2001 McNeil photo
087
More seam grinding. 15 SEP 2001 McNeil photo
088
Seam grinders pose for a portrait. 15 SEP 2001 McNeil photo