"The first shell I did was in Honalulu, and there I worked with an architect, that I had worked with at the Navy yard, named Pete Wimberly... Wimberly's architectural firm went on to be one of the biggest in the world. ...Pete and I were good friends, and when I went to Honolulu I'd stay in his house, and we'd start barnstorming at night. ...A lot of our stuff was just crazy talk, but a lot of it was freeing ourselves of inhibitions that later on we remembered... Pete had a very good intuitive sense for structure. He could... guess a structure that would make sense. ...[T]he first shell I did was a bowling alley near Pearl Harbor... a single curvature shell, cylindrical shapes... a span of about 93 feet... I could not find any way that... other shells were engineered. If you tried... you'd always get some kind of double-talk... [T]he world didn't have translations of everything then, like it has now. If a guy did something behind the it stayed... [T]he way I finally did it, I figured out that it must behave an awful lot like a... simple beam, even though it was a... curved structure, and so largely I figured it that way and it worked fine, and it's still up, and it was quite thin, it was 2 1/2 inches thick. In that day that was pretty daring..."