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Lakeview Generating Station Demolition

Posted by Jerrold Litwinenko / June 12, 2006

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Early this morning and after 43 years of service (1962-2005) the "Four Sisters" stacks of the Lakeview Generating Station in the city's way west end were brought down by explosives in a controlled demolition. I came across this rather awesome video of the take-down on YouTube.

More info on the building, it's service history, and it's demolition can be found in the demolition news release.

(Video composed of 250 still photos taken by Mathew Merrett. Requires Macromedia Flash to view.)

UPDATE: Here's another neat video from a different angle.

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Tanja / June 12, 2006 at 01:04 pm
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wow.
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ragdoll / June 12, 2006 at 01:43 pm
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Wow. That's an awesome video. The 'four sisters' were right down the street from my high school and have been a part of my landscape my entire life. It's quite a feat, seeing them demolished like that.
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sookie / June 13, 2006 at 03:41 pm
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Great video - amazingly stitched together from about 250 photos - would be great if there were sound too. I posted my perspective of the demo, along wiht the YouTube video on my blog: http://416style.blogspot.com/2006/06/farewell-four-sisters.html. Thanks for sharing.
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sookie / June 13, 2006 at 03:45 pm
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the link above doesn't like the punctuation. click sookie or this link: http://416style.blogspot.com/2006/06/farewell-four-sisters.html
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Susan Schaben / June 24, 2006 at 07:10 pm
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Every time I go home to visit Canada I look out my airplane window for the four smoke stacks. It is a reminder of where my dad used to work for 30 years. I flew in the day before the demolition and pointed them out to my husband and children. Never knew it would be the last time. The next day my brother told me they were demolished. The landscape, like my dad who now has Alzheimer's disease, will never be the same.
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