Scranton Implosion

[lakelandchief]

My grandpa worked in one of those buildings for 55 years. I did not know him I think it was some type of factory. If someone knows the name of the buildings maybe that would ring a bell of which one he worked in thanks.

[kneegloc]

Hey, I remember this! And I remember not going to see it, because "implosions" were all "the rage" back then, and I saw it live on one of the news stations... Then, they built a mall that charges too much for rent so no stores can survive... Vacant storefronts: Sounds like Scranton to me! ;-)

[kneegloc]

@barry23232323 Dis ain't "ghetto ebonics," dis is da way old Scran'ntonians tok. Day tok about dis here ting, and day tok about dat dare ting. Tings change a lot here, so dare used to it. Da 'lectric city, is what day call Scran'n. Dis includes Da Mall, and Gertrude Hoks (ya gotta' go true Dummore ta get dare).

[Yautjakshai]

Wow! I remember this!!! What a big deal this was for Scranton. It was like the coolest thing ever for Scrantonians. And the Kamakazi Camera was all the rage.

[scrantonsux]

why would you take the embedding of the video off?

you would thinck u would want as many people as possible see it

i cant wait till this whole town goes like that...wont be long MAYOR DOHERTY is running it into bankrupcy

[Trygar1987]

@scrantonsux I was not aware the embedding option was off, it is now fixed.

[7855waldo]

Why did WYOU do that?

Sincrely,

WMEE

[sickandtiredofmorons]

@7855waldo You're a fucking idiot.

[Lengas32]

When did this happen?

[freddiefernandez]

Totally rememeber this, I also remember when MTV played music

[barry23232323]

oh jeez yeah i do remember dis. den after dis dey put up da new mall

[BiscuitsMcGillicuddy]

@barry23232323 Can you speak fucking English...instead of ghetto ebonics?

[furley523]

I watched the implosion from the Lackawanna station with my mother. Still remember it.

[jeffcool78]

if u stream or stickcam around 92 they should have stream this live. long before the web blow up. i feel old now so long ago. crappy steam town but the train station is pretty nice if you like trains. part of pa history that is for sure.

[jeffcool78]

i rember this you have the whole thing.

[v33sonata]

OMG! I was in 3rd grade at John F Kennedy when we stopped class to watch this on TV. I remember it like it was yesterday! Hard to beleive it has changed so much. Even the past 8 years I have been gone the downtown area is so diffrent!

[garycollarini]

Man, I remember watching this live when I was a kid...

[WesCollieyote]

I still have this on VHS from when my parents taped A Christmas Story.

Didn't one of the two Coney Island restaurants burn down recently?

[decooler1]

Coney Island is back and running thankfully, and the hot dogs have the same great taste.

[bartmanxoxo]

now they need 2 do that with the rest of lackawanna ave!!!!!

starting withe the 500 block

[rikkideseeko]

jamie could rebuild it

[AirHendrix91]

So that's how the Feds did 9/11.

I see. I see.

[bartmanxoxo]

KOOL THEY NEED 2 DO THAT 2 THA staeanmtown mall

[Dominique102]

wtf why ! i love shopping there. HOT TOPIC FTW !

[Dominique102]

oh wait what ? i dont even know what im saying, i thought u said they need to do it to it, not they needed to do it for it.

[2008HLS]

I remember watching this from the hilltop of the U of S's campus. I also remember the fire a few months later when they were building the mall. I lived in the hill section then.

[OriginalG516]

yeah destroy historic old buildings, and put up a shiny new mall. its the american way.

and people wonder when they go to prague where all the malls are among the ugly old buildings of stone

[shiningstars109]

are they ever going to get Buona Pizza (it thts how you spell it) to move becuase like if they are re-doing that part of Lackawanna Ave, then they really need them to move. its gunna look ugly azz hell cuz everything else will be nice except for that. itll stick out like a sore thumb.

[flipandworldskaters]

yea my brother is almost as old as the steamtown mall !!!!!! >:)

[bluephox]

The rooftop cam did "kinda" work but we lost signal about 5 seconds after the roof fell in. I was working for WYOU at the time and was watching the live feed off the camera. I'm sure there is footage buried somewhere...We setup at least two decks to record just that feed alone.

[bartmanxoxo]

THEY need 2 do that 2 the other half of Lackawanna Ave !!!!

[omegasaxyvideo]

I had already left the station, but if I remember correctly they had placed a camera on the roof of one of the imploded buildings to capture that angle on the explosion. Maybe it didn't work?

I did live there in the 80's and it was a great news market until the corporations bought the stations and killed it. THAT is really depressing.

[spikerogan]

Hey any roof cam footage? Wasn't that wyou as well?

I recall watching this.

Red Barons were one of the best AAA teams that summer as well. Scranton was feeling big.

I would drive from the Poconos to Dickson City. Steamtown had little I liked.

[margestermeister]

haha awesome. i remember this well, along with what a big deal the mall was when it first was built. ah, back in scranton's true ghost town days. those who think it's depressing and crappy now didn't live here throughtout the eighties.

[getorphan]

Where's the plane?

[fozgatez]

lol@calling this a mall that is more like a freakin stripmall Steamtown is a pos just like the city is

[cliffdavis]

Wow, that well worded reply has really convinced me of what you are saying. The way you didn't use any punctuation, or capital letters makes it even better. Atta girl.

[lippyfam]

that was the start of the steamtown mall