Recent Adam's Mark Pictures

[giza]

I went out to The Adam's Mark last Sunday and took some pictures of its "deconstruction":



More pictures from tearing down the Adam's Mark can be found on my website here.

Comments

[drzarron.livejournal.com]

Pretty amazing. Hey, can you score bricks??

[antimon.livejournal.com]

all thsi work to put in a target store...it's goign to take them forever to break even let aloen turn profit, i just dont see the need to go through all this.....

Thsi is really rather sad to see, i mean we used to be in there.... I dont think i've ever been in a building that was demolished and no longer standing after, until now

[skippyfox.livejournal.com]

I had gone to a few Phillies games at the Veteran Stadium before it imploded. It's now parking lot but for a while there was this vast expanse of rubble that was pretty cool to see.

Seats from the stadium sold as mementos for a hell of a lot, iirc...

[firedhusky.livejournal.com]

like this :)
http://cgi.ebay.com/Veterans-Stadium-Logo-Seats-new-lower-price_W0QQitemZ220000247849QQcategoryZ25147QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Its always sad when a building is demolished when you have good memories of it...

Coincidentially I have stood on a building that was demolished and is still standing

I mean, they demolished a few floors after an earthquake damaged it; they were going to demolish it alltogether but instead they just chopped off the top 2 floors ;P

This is it when after they cleaned up, when they thought they were going to demolish it

[firedhusky.livejournal.com]

If the hotel was lost for something of more significance, like a hospital. Would be easyer to understand.
But a target ? is just wrong.

Are they going to blow it up or just tear it to pieces ?

garr !

FDH

[skippyfox.livejournal.com]

Only tearing it :(

[shockwave77598.livejournal.com]

... and the elevators probably work faster now than they ever have before, too.

[skippyfox.livejournal.com]

Yeah, but only in one direction ;)

[nidonocu.livejournal.com]

To comment on one comment you made that the fact the elevator shafts are still intact. From what I saw of recent buildings being built here in Sheffield that are now almost finished, one of the first things completed were those shafts so its highly likely they are a key structural point. :)

[rigelkitty.livejournal.com]

I think I left my toothbrush in my room.

[sagejackal.livejournal.com]

Rigel reminded me, is it too late to get my cell phone charger I left in my room? ;)

[wally-wabbit.livejournal.com]

Many fond memories there

[furahi.livejournal.com]

Awwwww ;.;

I was never there, but still ;.;

[kinkyturtle.livejournal.com]

I slept in three of those rooms!

[perro.livejournal.com]

And next the CDC moves in and quarantines the rubble....

[giza.livejournal.com]

As if traffic in my town isn't already bad enough!

(And I think what you just described is the EPA's job, BTW)

[perro.livejournal.com]

Well I know the CDC does establish quarantine stations at airports. I'm assuming they would have a field-day with the old AC building :P

[giza.livejournal.com]

AFAIK, the CDC handles diseases. When it comes to environmental contaminants (oil spills, etc.), I'm pretty sure that's the EPA's bag.

Though I could imagine both orgs fighting over who gets to clean up the Adam's Mark. That'd be fun to watch!

[danruk.livejournal.com]

I didn't leave anything behind, but I think I see Kage in the chairman's suite? Maybe someone should TELL him?

[zorinlynx.livejournal.com]

Anyone know why they're wasting so much time and money demolishing it this way, instead of just doing a controlled implosion? You'd expect the latter to be cheaper; heck there aren't even any immediately neighboring structures to worry about!

-Z

[giza.livejournal.com]

Asbestos

[tchall.livejournal.com]

You want to take bets that the folks who showed up at the Adam's Mark expecting the con was still there, will show up there again *this* year, thinking last year was just a fluke?

[giza.livejournal.com]

We gotta set up a webcam there! :-)