thousands camped outside a New York military base for days to buy 811 surplus huts at $275 apiece. Profiting off of the post-war Quonset boom was the La Plant Steel Building Company along 1017-1019 N.
The November/December 2019 Humanities magazine issue noted in the same year that Tompkins' father bought the Quonset, thousands camped outside a New York military base for days to buy 811 surplus huts ...