Fremont Rocket

Local nameFremont Rocket
LocationSeattle, United States

The Fremont Rocket is a sculpture of a rocket in the Fremont neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, US. The rocket had been displayed at an army surplus store in Seattle's Belltown neighborhood until 1991, when a news radio broadcast said the store was dismantling its "circa 1950 Cold War rocket fuselage", 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.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 military surplus tail boom originally part of a Fairchild C-119 'Flying Boxcar' transport aircraft.

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More information and contact

Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fremont_Rocket

Official Website http://www.fremont.com/storyrocket.html

Address 3612 Evanston Ave N, Seattle, WA 98103, USA

Coordinates 47°39'2.255" N -122°21'4.263" E

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