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From: Wayman McElhaney

To:Midway Island Group

Sent: Monday, June 09, 2003 9:30 PM

Subject: Questions answered

Traycee,

 

    Have no idea when the old open-air fish market in Honolulu was closed, but I imagine shortly after Statehood because the USDA health laws would then be enforced which would have effectively shut down the entire stinking place.

 

    As for the drycleaning plant.  Just about three weeks after I left Midway in October of 1952, the great tsunami hit on Nov 4th.  It took out the cabin instantly, tore the quonset building from its foundation and jammed it against an old concrete reinforced command bunker about 90 feet away.    Of course all that fantastic equipment was lost.  From 1953 on nobody on the Island  knew there ever was a cleaning plant there.  A couple of years ago we had one person in our group who was there when I was and knew about the plant, but he dropped out shortly after joining so I never got to talk with him much. 

 

Wayman