People I’ve met who saw it say it was like a vast wooden cathedral.
It was the world’s largest log structure. Made up of irreplaceable old-growth timber, back when such trees could still be obtained near enough to Portland that they could be transported there whole. Faulty wiring burned it down in ’64, it went up like a giant matchstick.
ProfessorZhirinovsky says
People I’ve met who saw it say it was like a vast wooden cathedral.
It was the world’s largest log structure. Made up of irreplaceable old-growth timber, back when such trees could still be obtained near enough to Portland that they could be transported there whole. Faulty wiring burned it down in ’64, it went up like a giant matchstick.
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Exterior view, with people for scale.
KillroysGhost says
I’ve seen pictures of this before but always assumed it was one of those temporary worlds fair structures, lasting till the 60’s is… pretty good?
Farrell-Mars says
The size of those logs is almost unbelievable. We’ll never see another building like it.
TheAndrewBen says
The roof looks similar to the building at LACMA… Which just started it’s demolition
givememyhatback says
I talked with locals who were around then and apparently you could see the blaze from miles around and burning embers traveled over half a mile away.