![store no more store no more](skiwayshelves2.jpg) Well, things started outside. First, the shelves (along with their contents) were removed. This is the skiway side, looking toward the entrance into the main room |
![tear down the walls tear down the walls](noshelves2.jpg)
A few days later, the siding went the way of the shelves. |
![where are the 300w light bulbs? where are the 300w light bulbs?](domesiding2.jpg) The same thing was happening on the other side of the building. |
![roll up the walls roll up the walls](domenosiding2.jpg) Looking the other way a few days later, the siding is gone (as are the stairs to the roof). |
![end door end door](bkside2.jpg) The fuel arch end outside BK's room. |
![raise the roof raise the roof](metaloff2.jpg) Up on the roof, after the shelves and ECW gear go away, so does the sheet metal roofing... |
![no more exams no more exams](emptyfrontroom2.jpg) Meanwhile...inside, the front room is being gutted. |
![no ultrasounds today no ultrasounds today](frontroom2.jpg) Another view. This all happened in early April. |
![is my blood work done? is my blood work done?](lab2.jpg) One of the gutted labs. |
![no movie tonight no movie tonight](mainroom2.jpg) Kate and Larry at work in the main room. |
![stuff for Jed stuff for Jed](boxes2.jpg) The trash filled many boxes.... |
![Fenway Park Fenway Park](sox2.jpg) Here's Larry Rickard with documentation on when this was happening. |
![hamster haven hamster haven](animalroom2.jpg)
At the other end of the building, the room most recently used by BK is gutted. This was the "animal handling room" in the original plans...note the floor drain intended for washing down the cages. I'm sure the drain had been frozen since 1977... |
![open ended open ended](bkgone2.jpg) This end of the building was soon to be gone. |
![no lead no lead](noxray2.jpg) The main room, looking into where the x-ray room used to be. |
![this place takes a bath this place takes a bath](notub2.jpg)
The only bathtub at Pole is gone--there is no tub in the elevated station! |
![open air open air](frontgone2.jpg) Now some serious stuff...the front half of the building has been opened up. Behind the plywood door at left, the heat is being retained in the center section for one more day. |
![empty empty](cold2.jpg) All is cold now...the main room has been ripped open. |
![topless topless](lastwalls2.jpg) Another view of the last walls standing. |
![floored floored](trusses2.jpg) Last to go, the flooring... |
![bottomless bottomless](joists2.jpg) ...and the trusses and foundation timbers. |
![away all away all](biomedgone2.jpg) And soon they are gone too... |
Some of the biomed and galley demo photos are from the common drive...by Bill Henriksen, George Prehn, Larry Rickard, and Robert Schwarz. |