Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/12/05
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Eric, I tend to go for the hyperlinks before I read the comments accompanying them, and not knowing what it was about, I discovered it gradually through your selection. Great fun and nice POV's of the new touristic point of interest of Sioux Falls. Thanks for showing, Philippe Op 5-dec-05, om 03:09 heeft Eric het volgende geschreven: > Yesterday, the tallest building in South Dakota was scheduled for > demolition. 202 ft. No, that is not a typo. More cows than > people here. > What did you expect? :) > > Anyway... the demolition company came in from out of state. Said > things > like this was one of the easiest jobs they've ever done. Slam > dunk. Big > fund raising event. Sold raffle tickets, with the winner getting > to push > the button that set off the explosives that would bring the Zip > Feed Mill > down. Proceeds went to benefit Multiple Sclerosis research. > > Local television crew taped the demolition from no less than 13 > angles. > Televised the event live. 25,000 showed up to watch the > explosion. (City > population: 140,000.) > > Anyway, to say this was a flop is a major understatement. We now > have the > Leaning Tower of Sioux Falls. Demolition company says they'll > bring in a > crane and manually tear the rest of it down within a few weeks. :) > > So I had to go out this morning and shoot some pics. -1 F at the > time. > (And we're back down to below zero again tonight.) > > http://canid.com/zip_feed_mill/zip_feed_mill_232a11.html > > http://canid.com/zip_feed_mill/zip_feed_mill_232b28.html > > http://canid.com/zip_feed_mill/zip_feed_mill_23302.html > > > More pics. (The first four were before the demolition.) > > http://canid.com/zip_feed_mill/thumbs.html > > All comments and critiques welcome. Which ones do you like and > which do you > think should never see the light of day again? :) > > > > > -- > Eric > http://canid.com/ > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >