The Fall Of Columbia/Avondale Mall pt.1

[GDG140678]

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[watajob]

Fuck Walmart.

[partyman6666]

The end of this video reminds me of one of those Discovery channel videos where a pack of lions devours a fresh kill.

[inmanmark]

The fifth operator seemed to be flailing away in the background, missing the building completely, obviously having fun though.

[popeye1579]

walmart had to have a new building? they could not use the old one? waste waste waste its the little things like this bullshit that will do us in....

[s0589me]

А взорвать не проще было? И дешевле.

[NME1994]

Shitty operators... and very very much against code having 4 excavators operating that close to each other, they're operating licenses need pulled.

[kcmenke]

Looks like a bunch a retards trying to hump a doornob

[LibertyAcres]

Excavator flash mob

[cooloffroadtrucks]

it was built in 1964

[asdg106]

Really another wal mart?

[SSFTC]

@asdg106 i know right!! wtf

[62346233]

what was this? dinosaur exam fail, hitting heads against a wall? nice video!

[demomanwreckit]

Talk about overkill. Why do they need four trackhoes to bring down this mall, when just one machine could do the job.

Who was the wrecking contractor on this?

[mrbluenun]

Doesn't look as if that wall was made to ever fall down!

Take care,

mrbluenun

[zak201]

Autobot inwasion ;)

[koertje]

This is so mean.

4 cranes against 1 wall aint fair.

[ayamemousy]

@koertje you're right, they need more cranes

[philritter21]

That looked really dangerous. Who are these yahoos?

[Iluvbuckethead1]

And so, a beautiful building/complex is replaced by the 1,765,923rd Wal-Mart

[MrROBDOG2005]

wow, it took more than one hit to make that wall fall. better get a bigger tractor next time,lol

[Thebestappreview]

But will it blend?

[UnitedColorsofTom]

They're like robotic dinosaurs picking bits off a carcass.

[nemo227]

@UnitedColorsofTom Indeed, it does. At first I thought it was the sci-fi movie, "The Monsters That Devoured Decatur." Guess I was wrong.

[Tonyshawnw]

I think a wrecking ball would have had this done faster. But then again it looked like the building was built to last. Kind of..

[ekm1166]

Count them 4 idiots.

[kickerofelves123]

These guys don't know wtf they're doing.

[rrrohan2288]

@Jarred55555666 that post just made YOU look like a idiot

[packrat79]

Never seen excavators working in formation like that before.....

[JonasLoverNumber1]

Is this part of the charming "Avondale" series from user 248329 ?

[canyubthe14me]

Many childhood memories... thinking and the floods of memories come forward. Worked at Baskin Robbins at 12 yrs old, every Christmas was bought between there & Belvadere Plaza (Milton Bradley were the coolest gifts), me & my brother Bobby riding stateboards, Christmas & summers riding the sidewalks from Sears to Davidson's while Mom shopped even though the NO BIKES,NO SKATEBOARDS ON SIDEWALK signs that hill was too fun, school clothes came from that mall.....I could go on forever....

[totalrcfreak]

whats with the 4th excavator? break down or what???? :P

[grievous421]

single file now...

[oneofzone6]

(cry, cry) man... that mall had so many memories... I bought my rabbit there, my ring, a jersey, some furniture, and my dad took me to see space jam there when i was 5..

[astro1218]

@oneofzone6 your memories suck!

[syid]

The grave is still there. You can see it when you zoom in from Google Maps. Paste these coordinates into Google Maps.

33.757178,-84.265617

Also, google the term, "CROWLEY CEMETERY" to learn about the family buried there.

[rapulanaimo]

didn't find anything but pictures. Why do you bury your people on parkinglots? We only did that to criminals and traitors in 1930's

[Yenaboi]

@syid why is there a cemetery there? o .o

[Yenaboi]

@syid So that means they dug up the land to it's "door level"?

[syid]

@Yenaboi

I believe so becuz the graves are undisturbed and on top of the mausoleum,unless I'm interpreting the description incorrectly. Here are quotes from the description:They Crowleys "put their cemetery on a hill overlooking their land." "The builder agreed to build a mausoleum around the cemetery, which is now in the parking lot.""A huge amount of dirt and trees had to be removed from the hill where the cemetery was in order to make the parking lot and to build the mausoleum.

[Yenaboi]

@syid so.. is the door just to get to the stairs to get up top?.. orr. anything inside of that?.. apart from the obvious.

[Yenaboi]

@syid and having read a bit about it

I can't help but feel sorry for the people who dug up that place with what ever was left of the 'slaves' that where buried around it...

[jcb1972]

What happened to the grave that was on the parking lot?

[syid]

The grave is still there. You can see it when you zoom in from Google Maps. Paste these coordinates into Google Maps.

33.757178,-84.265617

Also, google the term, "CROWLEY CEMETERY" to learn about the family buried there.

[jet346]

Very fascinating. I was one of the people who took pre-demolition photos of the mall and I noted the original street level facade was exposed there in the demo which had been hidden by that hideous 1990's renovation work. I'm still pissed to see it go, though for quite a few reasons.

[kgd5258]

An end of an era! Thank you so much for posting these shots of the end of Columbia Mall.

[kgd5258]

I sent you an email and I assume it went to your You Tube email account. Please look for it. Thank you.