Page 2 of 2

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 9:58 am
by scooterj
Beltonhawk wrote: From our own ScooterJ. Wish he was still in that office so we could see what the view looks like now.

Oooh, I had forgotten all about my animated series!
(It'll lock up for about a minute if you are on IE but then will flow smoothly once all the photos are loaded.)

Here's a few other pictures from that window...


A very early overview (10/16/03), before even the Nightmares building had come down...
Image


The trees atop the Empire Theater
Image



These two show the very first work that was done in the district, digging up the old trolley tracks under Walnut:
ImageImage

Hotel President renovation work...
Image
Image

Installing new utilities (note the surface lots still in use)
Image


Moving day for The Goldmine while a bulldozer is anxious to knock down the Morgue...
Image

Animation of part of the teardown...
Image


The teardown of the basketball building...

Image

Image

The view on 3/17/05...
Image



Here's a few pictures of the buildings in the arena area just before their destruction...

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

A few hours later...
Image

I think that the middle rubble pile was where they later found the old basement safe that was booby trapped with explosives...
Image




The aftermath of the water main break that pushed back the President opening and shut down the KCPL building...

Image

Image

Image




Here comes the new President letters!

Image

Image




And, the fall of the TWA building...  :(

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Image

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:00 am
by scooterj
staubio wrote: I'd forgotten about that too, but what is the building across the street next to President?

Hmmm.... I can't remember, but I do remember that when they demolished it there were a lot of ancient computer monitors in the rubble pile.

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:08 am
by schugg
what was the outcome of that safe they found?

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 10:15 am
by scooterj
I think the bomb squad came and blew it up.

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 11:49 am
by staubio
Awesome, scoot. Thanks. I owe you another drink.

Now I have to mourn TWA all over again, though.

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Fri Jul 27, 2007 3:58 pm
by DaveKCMO
i love this picture:
Image

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 4:07 pm
by heatherkay
That is awesome -- are those all the little lightbulb boxes?

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 8:59 pm
by kuslamb
I have never hung giant letters, but I would imagine that the cost associated with finding a way to put the light bulbs in the letter after the letter had been erected would outweigh the cost of putting in new light bulbs.  Either way, you have to put the light bulbs in again after the letters are up because they will burn out/break.

Seems like someone got anxious and put all the bulbs in too early?

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Tue Aug 07, 2007 9:16 pm
by anniewarbucks
I remember placing the H&R Block World Hedquarters, NABC and the Sprint Center labels on Google Earth.

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 10:17 am
by staubio
Now that the arena is complete, the loss of the Law Building really is that much more profound. There was a lot of traffic from the Arena MAX stop that must walk by the gravel lot that sits in the place of what could have been a bustling building. That was a tragic loss as this corner is now a prime part of downtown traffic flow.

Google Maps image still shows the law building. Overall, obviously, we're better off than what is in the aerial but I'd love to have that building back.

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 11:33 am
by Maitre D
Some Chris guy on flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/christhomas/sets/)  has great shots of the P&L progress too.  This is a pretty good set of pics:

Image

Image


Image

Re: SoLo - Before the Rapture

Posted: Fri Oct 12, 2007 1:07 pm
by DaveKCMO
did anyone catch the time lapse of the webcam that they were playing inside the SC? we caught it in the metro sports lounge. wish they would have slowed it down a bit because it went by in less than 5 seconds.