Tuesday, August 08, 2023

Six ramadas (shade structures) were built in 1954 from the Tucson Arizona scrapyard bomb bay doors of B 29s at the Javelina Picnic Area. Hundreds of B-29s ended up in Tucson for decommissioning after World War II and Korea.


There are four small shelters with three doors each, one longer structure with five doors and a large group site at the center of the picnic area with a gabled roof made from eight doors lashed to a metal frame. The 25 doors — each roughly 14 feet long, 3 feet wide and still studded with rivets and mounting brackets — came from at least seven different B-29s.

A plate still mounted to one of the doors identifies it as a B-29 part made by Briggs Manufacturing Company, a Detroit-based company that switched from making car bodies for Ford and Chrysler to cranking out airplane parts during World War II.


This reminds me of the Jeep hoods used to make a roof of a garage in Italy that I posted about years ago http://justacarguy.blogspot.com/2021/05/hoods-from-junked-army-jeeps-in-ww2.html

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