Buccaneer Hotel Implosion Galveston Island, Texas

[glimmer2158]

Hell yeah, I saw that shit.

[Urbanz1975]

Demolotion, its not an implosion.

[montrosepatriot]

The Dahl Convention Center (brick building to the right of the Buccaneer) met its fate in 2005 - replaced by the Galveston Island Convention Center (San Luis Resort complex) and the upscale accomodations @ the Moody Gardens complex)...

[WilliamRowlett]

If they absolutely had to blow up this place, it would have been nice if they could have put Tim McVeigh & Khalid Sheik Muhammed in the hotel's basement, sitting on a stool bound & gagged, before they started the detonator.

[ynoger]

I was raised in Galveston. My wedding reception was held at that Hotel in 1957. Then later it was the Moody House apartments where my father lived.

[LayPooDoo]

I lived in Galveston in the late 80s. Walk by this place many times. I thought it added something unique to the seawall. Sucks that its gone.

Why do we insist on forgetting the past? I guess Galveston, like the rest of America, needs another McDonalds/Circle K/Strip Mall/Eyesore.

[Galvestoner420]

Actually, I was really upset about them tearing down Crockett elementary. I attended K-2nd grade there. The cafeteria was downstairs! It's now a parking lot for Galveston College. I was also pissed about them tearing down the hotel on the east end of the seawall whose name escapes me at the moment. It had an old ship on it's sign (not the SS Galveston). It had a real high diving board, and a bridge that went over the shallow end of the pool. I used to swim there every summer as a child.

[guitar2349]

I also attended Crocket in 1st & 2nd grades in the 50's. The hotel pool you remember was the Jack Tar Hotel.

[Galvestoner420]

I'm BOI. I've been in and around that building throughout my life. For someone who grew up there, the seawall doesn't look the same.

[OFthePeople]

was this on 9/11

fell the same speed as word trade towers 1,2, and wtc building 7 at 5:24pm...wonder why, 9/11 obvious controllled demoltion...

[CrystalBeachTXakaCBT]

that's not funny man, leave that post in a WORLD TRADE CENTER 9/11 Video gtfo of this post with that, here I'm pissed off about theme doing this, and you want to be a prick about it, with that smart ass 9/11 comment, do you even know ANY history about the Buccaneer Hotel ? i doubt it, at least what you try to google that's about it huh ? there is a lot of history in Galveston and the Buccaneer Hotel has been apart of it since 1929 and you ruin the moment for me when i read your ignorant comment

[wildbeemer]

well they screwed that demolition up a little bit lol

[timbointx]

So sad that we destroy what is part of our history. A sweet memory that we can only remind our children of what was. Maybe Tilman will build a fiberglass likeness of himself, only with a smaller ego, to stand in its place.

[CrystalBeachTXakaCBT]

i feel that =[ it's a very shame to see this, this building saved the lives of Some 1,000 people marooned in the Buccaneer Hotel that is during the THE 1943 "SURPRISE" HURRICANE and that is not the only one either,it really pisses me off tell you the truth,i can't understand how you can destroy history,TO make Money by building something to replace it,it was built in 1929 it DESERVES to be standing still,for all of its history alone as hurricane shelter,school for cerebral palsy children in 1950

[luaestrelas]

What seems to be the staircase fell down in one piece...not normal...

[zerolizard]

Man, I must have been standing right next to you.  Thanks for posting this. I can't believe it was that long ago.