Post by Aron Sivle on Nov 7, 2005 7:31:23 GMT -5
I found this online and thought I might post it.It seems Baptist Memorial Hospital was demolished according to the newspapers in Memphis. Doesnt make sense to me but then again they may have been planning this.
MEMPHIS, United States (AFP) - Demolition experts detonated over 800 pounds
(360 kilograms) of explosives, toppling a million-square-foot, 21-story
Baptist Memorial Hospital where
Elvis Presley died.
Loudspeakers blared Presley's "All Shook Up," as some shed tears and others
lounged on lawn chairs, sipping champagne mimosas and bloody Marys.
On August 16, 1977, physicians pronounced rock and roll star Presley dead of
heart failure at 42.
The hospital was 99 years old Sunday, when it was blasted at 6:45 am,
moments after sunrise. It took 20 seconds to collapse into rubble three
stories high.
Many in the city considered the hospital historic. Onlookers packed nearby
roofs and crowded the perimeter of the security zone along the street across
from the hospital while listening to
Jerry Lee Lewis's "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" blaring from the sound
stage where administrators counted down to detonation.
Mascots from the city's sports teams handed out balloons to children, some
still dressed in pajamas and barely awake until the cacophonous bang that
sent the building cascading.
"It's become such a spectator sport," said Douglas Loizeaux, vice president
of Maryland-based Controlled Demolition, in charge of the implosion. "People
see it on TV so much they forget the inherent danger in implosions."
A production company filmed the event for future use.
Onlookers, like journalist Andrew Kagwa Gathaara, from Nairobi, Kenya,
started heading for their cars only minutes after dust cleared.
"I had a lot more expectation," Gathaara said. "It was a bit underwhelming
MEMPHIS, United States (AFP) - Demolition experts detonated over 800 pounds
(360 kilograms) of explosives, toppling a million-square-foot, 21-story
Baptist Memorial Hospital where
Elvis Presley died.
Loudspeakers blared Presley's "All Shook Up," as some shed tears and others
lounged on lawn chairs, sipping champagne mimosas and bloody Marys.
On August 16, 1977, physicians pronounced rock and roll star Presley dead of
heart failure at 42.
The hospital was 99 years old Sunday, when it was blasted at 6:45 am,
moments after sunrise. It took 20 seconds to collapse into rubble three
stories high.
Many in the city considered the hospital historic. Onlookers packed nearby
roofs and crowded the perimeter of the security zone along the street across
from the hospital while listening to
Jerry Lee Lewis's "Whole Lotta Shakin' Goin' On" blaring from the sound
stage where administrators counted down to detonation.
Mascots from the city's sports teams handed out balloons to children, some
still dressed in pajamas and barely awake until the cacophonous bang that
sent the building cascading.
"It's become such a spectator sport," said Douglas Loizeaux, vice president
of Maryland-based Controlled Demolition, in charge of the implosion. "People
see it on TV so much they forget the inherent danger in implosions."
A production company filmed the event for future use.
Onlookers, like journalist Andrew Kagwa Gathaara, from Nairobi, Kenya,
started heading for their cars only minutes after dust cleared.
"I had a lot more expectation," Gathaara said. "It was a bit underwhelming