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Veterans lined up to purchase Quonset huts and other surplus military supplies, Port Hueneme, July 15, 1946

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Title: Veterans lined up to purchase Quonset huts and other surplus military supplies, Port Hueneme, July 15, 1946
Date Created and/or Issued: July 15, 1946
1946-07-15
Publication Information: Los Angeles Daily News
Contributing Institution: UCLA, Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library
Collection: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives
Rights Information: US
Description: Access to this collection is generously supported by Arcadia funds.
Veterans lined up at the War Assets Administration area at Port Hueneme to purchase Quonset Huts and other surplus army and navy supplies such as tentage, steel bunks, electrical saws, bridge-building equipment, pumps and an air-raid warning siren. More than 1000 veterans with priority certificates showed up for the sale, some camped out to ensure they would get their choice of hut. The huts cost between $230 and $288 depending on the number of windows.
Text from original nitrate sleeve: 36261-B: War Materials, Surplus; Quonset Hut Sale, Port Hueneme; Cravens, Jack; Medicke, Winnie; Lauderdale, Jim B., wife Mary Elise; Ganow, Wm C.; Knudsen, Ronald; Pugsley, Larry
Type: image
Format: b&w nitrate negative
Identifier: ark:/21198/zz00280js1
Language: No linguistic content
Subject: Veterans--American
Quonset huts--California--Port Hueneme
War
Queues--California--Port Hueneme
Secondhand sales--California--Port Hueneme
Economy
United States. Navy
United States. Army
United States. War Assets Administration
Source: Los Angeles Daily News Negatives

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