1929-1999






Hello

My name is Sheila
and I live in Festus Missouri

This is about the destruction
of a landmark in Saint Louis Missouri.

It was called several names like "The Checker Dome"
but was more well known as "The Arena".


Did you see the implosion
of the "Old Barn"?

Well, I did
and here are the pictures of it.

This first
one
is of what it looked like a minute before the womanpushed the plunger.

Spirtas Wrecking Co., with assist from Controlled Demolition Inc.,
did the deed at 5:45 p.m. Febuary 27, 1999
as thousands of thrill-seekers and sentimentalists watched in and around The Arena's 26-acre expanse.
They did the destruction with only 133 pounds of TNT,
distributed carefully among 250 locations.
The wreckers blew the works by coursing 600 volts through a common wiring system,
igniting at once all of the blasting caps.
The caps, serving as timed fuses,
set the individual charges over 12 seconds.





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