Quonsets

Before the turn of the twentieth century, landowners had used the coolness of the crude underground Quonsets to house their food supplies and their dead until roads were passable in the spring.

Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

Before the turn of the twentieth century, landowners had used the coolness of the crude underground Quonsets to house their food supplies and their dead until roads were passable in the spring.

Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

Before the turn of the twentieth century, landowners had used the coolness of the crude underground Quonsets to house their food supplies and their dead until roads were passable in the spring.

Captured by Moonlight Nancy Gideon 2010

Faculty-sponsored events, often in honor of a visiting writer, and student parties in one of the Quonsets or apartments or rooming houses made up the larger social scene.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009

After the war, surplus Quonsets became ubiquitous in American architecture, being converted to houses, churches, and places of work.

Boing Boing: November 27, 2005 - December 3, 2005 Archives 2005

The Anchorage, Alaska Museum of History and Art is staging an exhibition of Quonsets past and present and has released a book to commemorate it.

Boing Boing: November 27, 2005 - December 3, 2005 Archives 2005

Over at the Air Force hospital, we heard the choppers thundering through the sky and over the hospital Quonsets.

Keynote Address At The Vietnam Women Veterans Memorial 1993

Outside they cut eastward, toward the Elbe and the docks, pounding along, skidding in mudpuddles, stumbling over lorry-ruts, wind sweeping among the Quonsets to bat them in the face, cocaine falling in little white splashes from underneath Krypton's left bellbottom.

Gravity's Rainbow Pynchon, Thomas 1978

In October the Carvers moved into married students’ housing at Fink-bine Park, a dismal collection of Quonsets tunnel-shaped corrugated steel dwellings on the far west side of campus.

Raymond Carver Carol Sklenicka 2009