These "portable" metal bunkhouses used at Camp 37 must be ranked as one of the less successful innovations on the Big Creek Project. One can only wonder what it must have been like to try to sleep inside one of them during hot summer nights!
Construction camps Tunnels Hydroelectric power Dwellings
Place
Fresno County (Calif.)
Source
Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives Story of Big Creek Southern California Edison Photographs and Negatives, Huntington Digital Library
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