Yeah, it seems like that should be a central part of the McDonalds there, at least as a display. Otherwise, whats the point of ever keeping it there in the first place?
Wonder what the value of the place is on the Multnomah tax roles? Probably difficult to sell that many of those awful burgers.
We scrapped the Battleship Oregon too. It used to be moored below the Ross Island bridge. Once it was part of the Great White Fleet, envisioned by Alfred Thayer Mahan.
They used it as an ammo dump for a while I believe. "Kind of" like what happened to the Bismark. The English dumped a lot of ammo into it. Har. Har. Har.
The cheapest thing an inexperienced chef could cook. No one can tell if it's cooked. We all realize the function of a liver, right?
Funny, b/c a trivia question for midshipmen is "what's the longest ship in the Navy?" It's the USS Maine, because one of her masts is on the Yard in Annapolis and one is at the Arlington National Cemetary, about 30 miles away.
Not sure back then. But she's an administrative assistant now. She's worked with Kaiser since 1980. Her name is Lisa Janke. What did you do there?
Your mom, doggy style. EKG Tech in the ER. Worked in the darkroom in x ray. A bunch of different things. Would work during breaks from college, filling in for people on vacation and maternity leave. Very fun. Worked just about everywhere in the hospital. Never heard of your mom.
During WWII the government asked for the Oregon back for scrap. The upperworks were removed and melted down. The hull was used as an ammunition barge in the Pacific. Late in the war it broke loose from it’s moorings (Somewhere in the Guam area if I remember rightly) and floated out to sea. Eventually our navy happened upon it and sunk it with gunfire rather than try to retrieve it.
That was when it was along side the Zidell warf under the Ross Island bridge. I did not know about the service as a barg.
