You too can be an engineer?!!!
SF Tower goes down!
Here are a few choice shots of SF tower being ripped to the ground.
I usta make the extra 5 minute trek to (out of my way to work) to Suffern, NY in the morning.
On a crisp November morning as I sat in the commuter lot I heard the sound of glass breaking- and breaking! As I turned my head, I saw a window drop out of the SF Tower!
Was I a witness to a terrible vandalism?
I took a couple of shots with what film I had in the camera as I watched in horror as window pane after window pane dropped out of the tower and crashed to the ground. What was happening?!!! The Grimaldi brothers had been known to "take over" the town.
I drove closer to SF. There was a CR wrecking crew there- I drove to the nearest "anything that looked like it might sell film store" and bought their last roll of film with the $2 I had in my pocket.
SF Tower was hit by a runaway car "back in the day". I sat in the tower one night with the operator and my freind Blake. It had a neat 15 degree list and so, was propped up by timbers that the *&%$##@'s who had to take her down had to chainsaw thru in order to commence with their work.
After several attempts to bulldoze her over (she woudln't budge because of the timbers- good). Duh- like gee guys- idea, let's chainsaw the thing we're pushing against so hard, huh?. And these are well paid "engineers". They decided that a wire rope thru the walls (in and out of the windows they busted out) would pull her over. It took 3 hours before the upper structure gave way. They actually roped the building where they could and were hoping the whole thing would come down but they were too expectant. All they managed was a horrific decapitation.
In the end- they succeded.
Here are the results.
I have all the "detail shots" and the last train to pass through the dust- but I can't bring myself to post them as I lament my most favorite tower's demise. It's just too brutal to post this kind of misery having lived through it.
All that was left at the end of the day was a concrete pad.
Mark
SF Tower goes down!
Here are a few choice shots of SF tower being ripped to the ground.
I usta make the extra 5 minute trek to (out of my way to work) to Suffern, NY in the morning.
On a crisp November morning as I sat in the commuter lot I heard the sound of glass breaking- and breaking! As I turned my head, I saw a window drop out of the SF Tower!
Was I a witness to a terrible vandalism?
I took a couple of shots with what film I had in the camera as I watched in horror as window pane after window pane dropped out of the tower and crashed to the ground. What was happening?!!! The Grimaldi brothers had been known to "take over" the town.
I drove closer to SF. There was a CR wrecking crew there- I drove to the nearest "anything that looked like it might sell film store" and bought their last roll of film with the $2 I had in my pocket.
SF Tower was hit by a runaway car "back in the day". I sat in the tower one night with the operator and my freind Blake. It had a neat 15 degree list and so, was propped up by timbers that the *&%$##@'s who had to take her down had to chainsaw thru in order to commence with their work.
After several attempts to bulldoze her over (she woudln't budge because of the timbers- good). Duh- like gee guys- idea, let's chainsaw the thing we're pushing against so hard, huh?. And these are well paid "engineers". They decided that a wire rope thru the walls (in and out of the windows they busted out) would pull her over. It took 3 hours before the upper structure gave way. They actually roped the building where they could and were hoping the whole thing would come down but they were too expectant. All they managed was a horrific decapitation.
In the end- they succeded.
Here are the results.
I have all the "detail shots" and the last train to pass through the dust- but I can't bring myself to post them as I lament my most favorite tower's demise. It's just too brutal to post this kind of misery having lived through it.
All that was left at the end of the day was a concrete pad.
Mark
