An industrial 1930’s brick and steel building in Richmond, California, with shop-riveted columns and trusses, houses Rosie the Riveter WWII Home Front National Historical Park. (More accurately, at this site it was Wendy the Welder doing the ship-building work.) It was our first visit to this National Historical Park, and we were impressed with its layout and exhibits, and the building’s shop-riveted trusses.
After an introduction and my description of the field riveting training at Lansing Community College with Cecelia Thiel, Supervisory Park Ranger, preliminary planning is underway for a field riveting demonstration at the site in March 2027. The riveting process using a field riveting hammer similar to those used to drive the 600,000 field rivets to connect the massive shop-riveted sections for each of the Golden Gate Bridge towers will be demonstrated.
