This upside-down chair is impaled in the ceiling of the Steve Quaife home, which was ruined by an explosion in March 1971. The chair evidently took flight, turned upsidedown and pierced the ceiling. According to an account of the event in the March 18, 1971 News-Herald, an accumulation of gas was suspected as the cause of the blast, since there had been a smell of gas the past couple days. However, three checks by gas company men did not discover a leak. Fortunately, none of the family members were home at the time of the blast, which also broke out a large plate glass window, buckled a wall, blew the roof loose from the walls, and threw an end table out the window and into the snow in front of the house. The residence was part of Tomteboda, the cabin resort owned and operated by the Quaifes. Steve Quaife is shown here examining the aftermath of the explosion a week after it happened.
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