Thread Number: 80742
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Neumaier Hall Implosion (Moorhead State University) |
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Post# 1047254   10/9/2019 at 10:41 (1,632 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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I'll probably have my ass handed to me for putting this in the Super forum, but it involves massive amounts of explosives, which I think can be twisted into "products for the home." LOL
I just noticed that 'Neumaier' is misspelled in the title line of the video. |
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Post# 1047263 , Reply# 1   10/9/2019 at 12:31 (1,632 days old) by CircleW (NE Cincinnati OH area)   |   | |
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That reminds me of when Sander Hall at UC was demolished by implosion in 1991. The 27 story dorm was built in 1971, and had various issues. It seems that a lot of buildings constructed during that time period were lacking in quality. |
Post# 1047265 , Reply# 2   10/9/2019 at 13:05 (1,632 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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The newest dorms at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo were of this same vintage when I was there. They were ugly bauhaus-meets-bunker looking, with solid concrete walls inside and out, suggesting projects that belonged in East Berlin and no doubt designed by an alumnus of their Architecture and Environmental Design curriculum. They were only three stories, but I have a feeling they'd be difficult to take down, presuming they haven't been already.
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Post# 1047382 , Reply# 4   10/10/2019 at 16:36 (1,631 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Ralph- Your photo of the Cal Poly dorm isn't showing up for me. I went online and found a couple photos of Yosemite Hall. Hope these are the correct ones.
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Post# 1047397 , Reply# 5   10/10/2019 at 20:13 (1,631 days old) by RP2813 (Sannazay)   |   | |
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Eugene, I wonder if it has anything to do with my having copied and pasted the image onto my post.
I love that the abomination known as Yosemite Hall made it onto a "brutalism" site! Very deserving! I suppose it's sister dorm, Sierra Madre Hall, was inducted at the same time.
This picture shows the cell block look of the rooms. The vertical blinds don't help matters any. We had curtains when I was there. Lighting was, and apparently still is, provided by florescent tubes hidden atop the closets.
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Post# 1047440 , Reply# 6   10/11/2019 at 10:07 (1,630 days old) by Unimatic1140 (Minneapolis)   |   | |
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I'll probably have my ass handed to me for putting this in the Super forum
I'll let it go this time Eugene ;-) because I went to NDSU across the river in Fargo in '81 so we could have even met as our times overlapped! I graduated high school in Fort Lauderdale, FL in June of '81 and in Sep '81 left for Fargo to go to NDSU. |
Post# 1047443 , Reply# 7   10/11/2019 at 11:02 (1,630 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Robert- Sent you a message.
Ralph- Wow, those dorm rooms aren’t exactly warm and inviting are they? The oddest dorm room I lived in was in Nelson Hall my freshman year (Sept. ‘77- May ‘78). You can see Nelson in the video above—it’s the round building. The rooms were shaped like a piece of pie, being narrowest at the doorway. Trying to fit room-sized rugs in those rooms was interesting. Sidebar: Kevin Sorbo (who would become TV’s ‘Hercules’) lived on my floor in Nelson Hall. He partied in my room a number of times. I’ll have to dig through my Polaroids. I know he’s in a couple of them. Of course, he was just another college freshman at the time. I only knew him while living in Nelson. Years later I started seeing him on TV and in People Magazine! |
Post# 1047457 , Reply# 8   10/11/2019 at 12:46 (1,630 days old) by LordKenmore (The Laundry Room)   |   | |
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Post# 1047464 , Reply# 9   10/11/2019 at 13:59 (1,630 days old) by Frigilux (The Minnesota Prairie)   |   | |
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Lord Kenmore- And that would probably have been our room, LOL. I don't know why we weren't busted a hundred times during our years in Neumaier.
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Post# 1047466 , Reply# 10   10/11/2019 at 14:09 (1,630 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Reminds me of our old Hudson building in downtown Detroit... That had to get blown up in a very similar method, after it sat mostly unused & very uninhabitable, as glorious and prominent a landmark it had long been...
And even it being the very first & most famous Hudson's in Detroit, free-standing and a true department store, multi-floors, a Santa Claus every Christmas season, and all... And what about all the booze that must have been made or at least bought for THAT event at your dorm/hall? Great presentation, great show! -- Dave |
Post# 1047474 , Reply# 12   10/11/2019 at 17:25 (1,630 days old) by DaveAMKrayoGuy (Oak Park, MI)   |   | |
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Okay, our old Hudson’s: I forgot “Iconic” as in Ren Cen and the Detroit River, as well as that man “thinking” and last of all our ball fountain...
Really, how did a mere destruction on a structure revealed as an icon turn into this? If this is inappropriate for a general topic for all to be involve or discuss then maybe this belongs in As The Tub Turns, as I don’t find anything about this so volatile or disturbing that it belongs in Dirty Laundry... I won’t mind ponying up another thirty-day membership (and that was fastest thirty days—compared to what jail would be like!), so with that, I have nothing more to say...! — Dave |