12 March 2004 - 1751 hrs (CST)
Well, as I predicted, Murray Demolition did just
what I thought they would do. During the last two weeks that very long
and lovely old historical building that was doing such a good job of
hiding the "Jaws of Death" from the public eye came crashing
down to the ground and got hauled away in dump trucks. It rather reminds
me of a similar scene in 1959 only this time the dump trucks were filled
up with what used to be Bay 1.
The Avro office building is not fairing much
better and although some care seems to be taking place in its destruction,
it is still very sad to see all of the "stuffing" hanging
out where those grand outside walls used to be.
Perhaps we shouldn't tell them when or who built
what is now the "International Centre" as I am told that there
still exists one Iroquois test cell in this facility but alas, it is
now a Bingo Hall.
Every time that I go to the "International
Centre", I find myself staring at the heavy wooden beam ceilings
trying to envision this building about 45 years ago and what may have
been taking place then on the very spot where I am standing.
We are lucky that our memories, imaginations
and thoughts unlike structures cannot be destroyed and trucked off to
the unceremonious scrap heap.
Well, that's my opinion.