The Pacific Trade Center Building in San Pedro, California, is no more. After removing all the glass and asbestos from the abandoned building, a demolition company based in El Monte, California, imploded the old hulk. Nicknamed “The Logicon Building” for a previous tenant – Logicon is now part of Northrop Grumman Information Systems and is currently located in the larger of the two buildings seen at the left in the inset. The old building is the smaller one to the right and is shown as it looked when abandoned for more than a decade before being stripped of the dangerous materials for the implosion.
The building site will be redeveloped into high rise condominiums and new shops and businesses.
For those of us with latent destructive tendencies, this video is somewhat satisfying to watch. And we’re not alone – listen to the cheers as the structure tumbles into a heap.