Lou Hemphill Pavilion - Construction - Day Seven - Install Metal Roof

Photos and commentary by Andy Steere.

This is day Seven of construction. It is October 27th, 2001 and the weather is cold, but no wind to speak of. The steel roofing material is here and work began early, despite the very cold 25F temperature. It "warmed" into the upper 40's by the days end. A good turnout of workers today.

STATIC IMAGES

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By the time I got there, (starting to sound familiar... as you can tell, I'm not a morning person), half of the metal roof was already installed. This is a shot from the south end of the pavilion.
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This is a shot looking back toward the pavilion from the pits area in front of the old canopy. This is the side completed already.
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Robert and Billy work as a great team, installing the roofing material like the professionals they are.
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We ran out of green screws, so we couldn't finish the gable-ends or the ridge-vent. So, we started on the ceiling. First thing is to nail up the channel-pieces that hold the ceiling... which is made of the same coated-steel as the roof.
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Randy Loesch and Jerry Windsor make quick work of this part.
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Randy, Jerry, and Billy begin to install the ceiling pieces.
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A view from the parking lot.
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One section of ceiling is installed. Just enough time to get a couple flights in before dark.
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End of day seven.

MOVIE CLIPS

(Choose a format to view by clicking on one of the two links provided. The native format for the video camera (Olympus C-700UZ) is Apple Quicktime MOV. This version will produce the best picture and sound possible, but the file sizes are large. The Microsoft AVI files were converted using Lead Multimedia Converter and while much smaller... their image quality suffers (a lot on some movies, very little on others). If you have trouble viewing these by directly clicking on the link, try right-clicking on the link, choose save to disk, and play the video ouside the browser. The MOV files require Apple Quicktime player or plugin, and the AVI files require Microsoft Windows Media Player or similar. The AVI files are converted using an Indeo video codec, if you have trouble viewing the video.)

Robert and Billy working up top... while others feed material and stuff to them.
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Jerry, Randy, and Billy, installing the ceiling.
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Last modified on 07/15/2002

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