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The 1940 Story

..The spring of '40, they led away *Big Shorty*..

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By then, the walls were up, the roof was on, the building was in the dry! HURRAY! Next came the real work, UUGGH! The heavy job of forming the concrete mezzanine and bathroom floors all the way out to the front wall. Loads of pine saplins were brought in to support these floors and with the saplins came the many, many tons of concrete materials used in the pouring of the huge balcony that reached all the way across the building. After the balcony forms were up and supported, heavy wire loops were nailed to the form every 16 inches. These loops were pulled out of the concrete after the forms were removed. the *wire lather* attached heavy galvanized vertical wires to every one of these. They were marked at a proper height. Then, level small *channel rods* were tied to them, wire *lath* then attached made the ceiling ready for the plaster crew. I worked a couple of days helping to form the unique barrel design of the mezzanine ceiling. The lather would mark a row of the verticle wires at one height next to the wall. The next row out would be another height, the next row a little higher yet as the ceiling progressed upward. After the peak had been reached, the rows of wires would be graduated down to the other wall, thus forming an oval ceiling, the channel rods attached to the wires. The wire lath attached, and eveything *tightened up*, the lather would move on to another challenging task, such as the huge curved molding on each side of the lower off set ceiling.



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