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Demolition
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Demolition Photos - Week Two
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A view from across Lake Street.
3/18/02
The former front entrance.
3/20/02

Debris is lifted into a dump truck in the north alley.
3/18/02
A welding tool disconnects more of the west wall while a wrecking ball knocks into beams between the first and second floor.
3/20/02

An interior view of the first floor non-fiction area shows exposed pipes and gravel floor.
3/21/02

Debris fills the floor of the north west corner.
3/21/02

Sun shines on the Lake Street side of the building.
3/22/02

The pile of removed steel grows in the north lot.
3/22/02

A view from the north west corner shows the gutted fiction room.
3/22/02

Much of the north west corner of the building has been removed.
3/22/02
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