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510 Fifth Avenue contains either 65,000 or 70,000 square feet (6,000 or 6,500 m 2) of floor area. [ 43 ] [ 44 ] Two elevators and two fire stairs abut the western side of the building. [ 45 ] [ 46 ] The elevator lobby on the first floor, accessed by the western entrance along 43rd Street, was designed with ceiling tiles made of glass. [ 47 ]
Bunkhouse. A bunkhouse is a barracks-like building that historically was used to house working cowboys on ranches, or loggers in a logging camp [1] in North America.As most cowboys were young single men, the standard bunkhouse was a large open room with narrow beds or cots for each individual and little privacy.
George Franklin Barber (July 31, 1854 – February 17, 1915) was an American architect known for the house designs he marketed worldwide through mail-order catalogs. Barber was one of the most successful residential architects of the late Victorian period in the United States, [4] and his plans were used for houses in all 50 U.S. states, and in nations as far away as Japan and the Philippines. [4]
A wheel would be placed on the rear frame section of the truck, which at the time had only four wheels, making the additional wheel the "fifth wheel". The trailer needed to be raised so that the trailer's pin would be able to drop into the central hole of the fifth wheel.
In the 1930s, Walker invented a device which added a fifth wheel to cars to aid parallel parking. The extra wheel was mounted on the rear of the vehicle, at right angles to the rest of the wheels. When in use, the fifth wheel lifted the back of the car off its normal rear wheels, allowing the rear of the car to swing laterally. [2] [3]
The bunkhouse served the crews at the rail yard and division point at South Cle Elum, Washington. The bunkhouse is an L-shaped, two-storey, wood-frame vernacular building originally placed near the depot, but moved to its present location south of the rail yard around 1920 to accommodate the electric substation when the Milwaukee Road ...
Fifth Five-Year Plan may refer to: Fifth Five-Year Plan (People's Republic of China) Five-Year Plans of India#Fifth Plan (1974–1978) Fifth Five-Year Plan (Soviet Union)
The most common type is the standard bunk bed which has two same size mattresses stacked one directly over the other. A twin over full bunk bed is arranged as a standard except that the bottom mattress is a full size and the upper is a twin size.