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, - The 40-year-old Flamm mmiinec batter most structures to rubble er. It was coming down, all
e Miami Beach was corn- wouldn't reach the top. right, but in small chunks.
mg down today, but the sturdy The wrecking company then Working along with the air
structure was fighting every hooked steel cables to the 3- hammer men were others with c ..
step of the way, story tower atop the main build- torches to cut through the rein-
3^...1 ing and tried to pull it down forcing rods. ~''
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Workmen of the Cuyahogawinches.
Wrecking Co. had no trouble When the once-elegant hotel F
�.� leveling the sprawling wings of with The cables snapped, but the on Bay Road two blocks south
building didn't budge. It's built of Lincoln Road finally is 1ev- i
the building and the 11 guest of reinforced concrete, eled, a 14-story, 588-unit apart- Z
cottages. ment building will rise on the ‘.'1 ".-
So today, George L. Sogg,
a- But the 11-story main build- president of the wrecking coin- site.
ing was another problem. The pany, had men with air ham- "We'll get it down one way
6,000-pound steel ball which can mers pecking away at the tow- or another," Sogg said.
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