But with only three ship-related businesses, today's yard is not the same place where a teenage Pete Hamill worked as a sheet metal worker, or where Arthur Miller, fresh out of college, pulled 11-hour night shifts as a shipbuilder.
Judy Padilla, who worked as a sheet metal worker at Rocky Flats for 22 years and has since had a mastectomy, told the board: "We ask neither for sympathy nor charity.
He moved south to London where he worked as a sheet-metal apprentice and on an ironmongery stall in Shepherd's Bush.
Six sheets of paper, delicately colored across the spectrum from yellow-orange to blue-violet (so delicately that you may hardly notice the color shift), rest on shelves whose shadows on the wall, each slightly different because of the different angles to the overhead lights, seem as much the substance of the work as are the colored sheets of paper.
Empty boxes figure in many of the works, as do overlapping sheets of colored and gridded paper that are likely to stimulate painterly debates about space and perspective even as they suggest a rational-mathematical mind-set.
A red sheet would work, as would just plain old cotton fabric from the fabric store.
She told but three stories from her childhood: one in which she broke her nose in a softball game, another in which she jumped out of a second-story window to test whether a sheet would work as a parachute, and a third in which an evil but rich uncle humiliated her loveable but ne'er-do-well inventor of a father.
My Texas-born father had only a third grade education and worked for the Santa Fe Railroad as a sheet metal guy.
Fitted sheets don't work as well because of their elastic corners.
Crucially, a working cell can be made by spreading a thin layer of the stuff on another material, such as a sheet of plastic.
