Historic Hood River
Kelly Brothers/ Big 7 Fire redux
6-23-2022
Notes
This is another Howard Jones view of the July 29, 1939 fire at the Kelly Brothers/ Big 7 Buildings in Hood River’s industrial quarter. There sure are a lot of people standing around watching. I wonder why we find structure fires so captivating? Is it the primitive nature of fire itself, or the fact that our built environment rarely changes so abruptly?
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Some are evidently firemen with a pretty weak stream.
When the Hood burns, it burns big – in these warehouses and packing houses.