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Nestlés Goes Down |
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| Owner Dan Cashman announced all but the warehouse is to come down. The salvage company taking down the facility will reclaim and sell as much as possible to cover the cost. | ||||
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Ground level removed |
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| Word quickly spread Wednesday afternoon, August 17, 2011, about 2:20 that the first building was to be pulled down. | ||||
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Cables were connected to the building and to large equipment which began to pull but the building did not move. Note men are working around piles of materials already removed from the facility. |
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Men went in with torches to make bigger
cuts in the beams. You could hear the building klunk as the
severed beams dropped. "I never thought I would live to see this building come down, " commented Bob Comstock who worked there. When they added additions it was for a plant to be here forever. |
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The cables were once again pulled tight and within in seconds
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Lenny Lepola's photo of the building coming down |
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Debris turns the bright day into night |
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Photos by Lenny Lepola and Polly Horn |
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Nestles Story See Photo in Delaware Gazette Return to Local History Index |
(08/20/2011) |
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