END OF AN ERA
They're demolishing the old Miami Herald building. I admit there were times I wanted to do this myself. But now it just makes me sad.
Veteran Herald guy Walter Michot shot this video.
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They're demolishing the old Miami Herald building. I admit there were times I wanted to do this myself. But now it just makes me sad.
Veteran Herald guy Walter Michot shot this video.
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Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 28, 2014 at 05:44 PM
Our newspaper's old building will be torn down before too long, and the Star-Tribune's building's demolition is being chronicled by James Lileks (at Lileks.com). Smaller staffs and outsourced printing seem to be clobbering one old building after another.
Posted by: Captain Spoilsport | April 28, 2014 at 05:49 PM
There was a great view from the snack bar.
Posted by: Jeff Meyerson | April 28, 2014 at 06:14 PM
Tore Down
Posted by: manual tomato | April 28, 2014 at 06:34 PM
After every trip out of town, I was disappointed to find that the health department hadn't burned to the ground.
Now that I'm retired, I kind of miss...oh, who am I kidding?
Posted by: Steve | April 28, 2014 at 07:20 PM
Come to find out, decades of accumulated Cheez-it dust really is combustible. We assume Dave, Judi and Walter are safe?
Posted by: HogsAteMySister | April 28, 2014 at 07:41 PM
I can't watch. Too sad. All of our touchstone bulldings are disappearing, and for what? More condos. Gah.
Posted by: Suzy Q (the original) | April 28, 2014 at 07:46 PM
Things change. That's how it is. Wish I had something deeper than that to offer, but ....
Posted by: Meanie the Blue | April 28, 2014 at 08:48 PM
If they really had to do this, they should have gotten "24" involved and had Jack blow it up.
Posted by: Steve (The 24 Guy) | April 28, 2014 at 09:12 PM
I walked past the Chicago Sun Times site, now the Trump Plaza. I thought about the printing presses, the back door where secret sources could come in without being spotted, I miss the smell of printer black ink.
Posted by: Not My Usual Alias | April 28, 2014 at 09:36 PM
It didn't take long to tear that part down.
Posted by: Theresa | April 28, 2014 at 10:12 PM
I read the blogs of exactly two newspapermen - Dave Barry and James Lileks (Minneapolis Star Tribune.) How strange that both of them are documenting the razing of their old work places at the exact same time. I've pretty much switched to the internet for my news so I know I am complicit, but I am saddened that future Barrys and Lileks won't have an ink-stained background. (But I do still subscribe to the local paper.)
Posted by: Gregg in Baton Rouge | April 28, 2014 at 10:28 PM
Was that Dave running in the foreground?
Posted by: Ms. Flukey | April 28, 2014 at 11:13 PM
So is this like some sort of epic mini series that will run for a while, or are they going to knock it down?
Posted by: JG | April 28, 2014 at 11:30 PM
manual - my version once they get it done.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SndJxjeV2OU
I'd do the linky thingy but my instructions are at work.
Posted by: ubetcha | April 28, 2014 at 11:40 PM
Gregg in Baton Rouge, you're not alone in that.
(I've actually experienced watching the newspaper building where I'd spent ten years of my working life torn down. It was a ratty old place we called "the Termite Terrace" - yeah, shamelessly stolen from Chuck Jones - but it was a sad day nonetheless.)
Posted by: Sgt Stadanko | April 29, 2014 at 12:55 AM
Hmm... how'd that happen? That's an old nic I haven't used in long time...
Posted by: Spiny Norman | April 29, 2014 at 12:59 AM
That was a lovely controlled demolition, though - very little dust or debris into the water. My compliments to the engineer-in-charge.
My dad used to
blow things upbuild roads for the state of NY. Once in a while things would not go as planned. Knocked both hands off the Lady of Lourdes statue in front of the high school in Poughkeepsie. Good times, good times.Posted by: Annie Where-but-here | April 29, 2014 at 01:14 AM
another teaser for the new 24? - 'Nobody makes fun of JACK BAUER, dammit'!
Posted by: ligirl | April 29, 2014 at 07:24 AM
... don't forget the "tax advantages" of paying for a new structure ... Knight-Ridder went broke not many years ago, but McClatchy is (are) now (apparently) making enough profit that they need the deductions ... or perhaps they're selling out, and more than one entity will share the "profits" of this rollover tax deduction, now that the staffs have been whittled down ...?
Posted by: O the U(manity) | April 29, 2014 at 08:39 AM
ubetcha - I had the LP Still Alive and Well when it was released. Hadn't heard JW do that tune in decades. I hear JW is anything but still alive and well these days.
Posted by: manual tomato | April 29, 2014 at 02:58 PM
Isn't that the building they sorta fake blew up for the finale of Burn Notice? Sort of looks like it.
Posted by: "Ol' Chumbucket | April 29, 2014 at 04:29 PM