Last walls standing at Sunset Bowl

Posted by Geeky Swedes on January 23rd, 2010

Demolition crews have been hard at work on Saturday, tearing apart the last remnants of Sunset Bowl. Only the southern and western walls remain.

Three excavators are taking part in the demolition.

They’re tearing the debris into smaller pieces for trucks to haul away.

Crews appear to be saving some of the larger beams.

A small crowd watched the demolition work through the chain-link fence.

A worker at the site told us they’ll be taking Sunday off and resuming work on Monday. The last two walls will come down early to middle of next week.

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10 reader comments so far ↓

1 Mondoman // Jan 24, 2010 at 12:54 am

I suspect they're using “excavators”.
2 Name // Jan 24, 2010 at 1:07 am

wow. pretty weird to see it now that its done.
3 sdrake1958 // Jan 24, 2010 at 3:16 am

It's gonna be a nice hole in the ground! Looking forward to that hole coming soon to a nice neighborhood near us all. They still have a hole on Stone where Safeway once sat too. I wonder just where it rates on the hole charts/graphs? The fire station is starting to look very outdated and smallish too now, dontcha all think? At least I can STILL bowl on my Wii.
4 Bjorn Toobiewild // Jan 24, 2010 at 3:29 am

Maybe they could set up a lawn bowling area until the construction starts.
5 Idle Activist // Jan 24, 2010 at 3:42 am

Are the Geeky Swedes rubbing salt into the wounds of the natives?
6 leafdrop // Jan 24, 2010 at 4:03 am

Looks like some good bonfire wood for shilshole.
7 Brian Schaeperkoetter // Jan 24, 2010 at 7:28 am

Uhgh…graphically. This hurts.
8 Silver // Jan 24, 2010 at 9:19 am

Beautiful pictures, you guys. Very evocative. They capture the feelings of the people watching.
9 mil0_dakkat // Jan 24, 2010 at 6:55 pm

Don't think of it as a “hole in the ground,” think of it as “urban open space.”

I was standing there watching while GS was taking photos. Got a nose full of bowling alley, hopefully minus the asbestos. There's something creepy about a building being torn down but it's an interesting process to see.
10 mil0_dakkat // Jan 24, 2010 at 6:57 pm

P.S. Nice photos, GS!

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