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214: 1519: 29: 1514: 591: 169:]", prompting the Fremont Business Association to buy it for $ 750. The Business Association took a few years to overcome problems with assembling and erecting the rocket, finally placing it at its current location at N 35th St. and Evanston Ave N. on June 3, 1994. 172:
Though the salvaged "rocket fuselage" description has been repeated by some sources, and a Fremont chamber of commerce member called it a "de-fanged Cold War emblem", it is not made of any rocket or missile parts but rather from a
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neighborhood until 1991, when a news radio broadcast said the store was dismantling its "circa 1950
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sci-fi space rocket appearance, adorned with "neon laser pods" in the style of
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or "Freedom to be Peculiar", and was called "phallic and zany-looking" by
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Found object
Seattle
Washington
Coordinates
47°39′02″N 122°21′04″W / 47.65061°N 122.35118°W / 47.65061; -122.35118
sculpture
rocket
Fremont
Seattle
Washington
surplus store
Belltown
Cold War
sic
military surplus
tail boom
Fairchild C-119 'Flying Boxcar'
transport aircraft
Art Deco
rayguns
Lonely Planet
Statue of Lenin

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Seattle's Fremont; Images of America

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