Implosion of the South Side stands
Shortly after 8am this morning, the lower section of the south side stands at Frank Clair Stadium in Lansdowne Park were demolished in a controlled implosion. I was heading over to my apartment to meet up with the painters, so I stopped off along the way to watch the show.
I parked on Bristol Avenue, near Echo and Riverdale and joined the growing crowd on Echo. We could hear the three-minute and one-minute warning sirens and then the countdown of the last few seconds. After zero there was a pause and then a series of booms, kind of like someone taking slapshots at the board in a hockey rink, without any visible effect on the part of the stadium we could see.
After a few more booms the east end kind of folded up and dropped into the growing cloud of dust.
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AKA Keeper of Maps, I'm a geocacher who lives in Ottawa, Canada.
I come from China. nice to meet you!
I saw your blog occasionally .And I have to say good photo shot.
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Hi Ivy…
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