Buccaneer Hotel Implosion Galveston Island, Texas

New Years Day 1999. Buccaneer Hotel is imploded to make way for new construction along the Galveston Island seawall. Galveston Island, Texas, USA.

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[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.

[guitar2349]

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

[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.

[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.

[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