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When this photo was taken the Willamette river was a lot more polluted than it is today. Somewhere around this time the river caught on fire. It was so polluted that the oil and other pollutants actually caught f ire. It had to be horrible working on this project.
When this photo was taken the Willamette river was a lot more polluted than it is today. Somewhere around this time the river caught on fire. It was so polluted that the oil and other pollutants actually caught f ire. It had to be horrible working on this project.