Glass Bank 27 Demo Jan 21 Trying to open the Vault
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 23 ม.ค. 2015
- On the fifth floor of the abandoned Cocoa Beach Glass Bank just below the penthouse is what seems to be a concrete vault of some sort. The excavator is having a really tough time tying to open it with his 65 foot excavator with a concrete shear.
It's always so sad to see an amazing place like this being torn down.
Old places are so interesting to me, and this place was abandoned for years before they finally demolished it. The inside of the pent house looked so cool.
+Kathryn Woffinden I agree, what a waste
Right! Somebody could turned that into a awesome place
no million or billionaire in there right mind's would have blow mega dollars on a building that was structurally un' sound.
Sorry people but nostalgia can't stand in he way of progress forever.
Really fucking sad. This place was a work of art.
Yep. Not to mention the whole "mansion" inside.
Where was he "Trying to open the Vault" ???
Hey! Youre a railfan too!
The exterior may have fallen victim to one too many hurricanes, but that interior section wasn't going without a fight.
+boutcha1 The planes were not relevant. Just pour a few thousand gallons of jet fuel on the fourth floor and set it on fire. The building will collapse in free fall acceleration into it's own footprint since the office equipment and furniture will generate enough heat to weaken the structure. It's been proved before, three times! Building 7 proved we don't even need the planes. No Saudi's required.
+Kevin Fox Yes, controlled demoliton agreed, Building 7 proved it was all a hoax with planes, Jet feul cant melt steel. You can tell im a conspiracy theorist
The Proper People explored this place in 2014
+Crossbow Dekker YAS
+technologically inadequate audio reader Yea..It was so cool inside!!
would have liked to see it in person :*(
It's not a vault. It's the elevator mechanical room.
That the building had to go was depressing, but that machine was just glorious.
Why doing this USA.Destroying your own history which you hardly having? Interesting and beautiful buildings just left to rot until it comes time to tear it down. This could not happen so easy here in Europe. I heard they couldn't open the vault. Well, done mr Wolf.
+Maruna Junttila This only happens because people who own the building(s) that become abandoned have no money to fix the building, or they become bankrupt.
There is one fundamental difference between the United States and Europe. Space. In European cities there is no room to grow outward, unless you want to be further from the action. In the States, we don't have that problem at all. That is why our cities tend to sprawl out more. That building was a eyesore and the land was in low demand. And the building did not live up to code, so rebuilding it would cost more that the value of the history behind the building. That is also why you see buildings in the States usually go beyond the safety guidelines in a effort to make it so that the structure will meet safety guidelines for much longer. I live in a bedroom community of Los Angeles and there are a decent number of abandon buildings outside of very wealthy hubs. It is not history that American contractors care about, it is demand, and the more demand there is, the more money per square foot.
it the exactly the same in Britain with old buildings which are 300 years old are just left to rot it's disgusting
Sam Wilde We had an workhouse at the place I lived once and it had vines and everything. Utterly terrifying for me, being someone who doesn't deal well with old buildings, abandoned or not. At the back of the workhouse was tons of rubbish. Gladly the workhouse has been converted into houses and the rubbish has been replaced by new houses.
I watched all this from my condo
Such a shame.
Thank God. That building was an eyesore
+Sherpaful If it wasn't left to rot then it wouldn't have been an eyesore. The building was awesome and it's a shame that it deteriorated like it did.
Good ol Florida construction
I wish someone will rebuild it again with every exact teachers in the same place
Doesn't seem that damaged by the hurricane, sure it was salvageable
It was not there was a graffiti all over the inside
Maria Matonti Google: "Dan Reiter's Letter to Pres. Obama about The Glass Bank in Cocoa Beach"
The owner did not commit suicide.
Bryce Cannon facebook.com/notes/michael-underwood/dan-reiters-letter-to-pres-obama-about-the-glass-bank-in-cocoa-beach/10151958219331936
Frank Wolfe is the Owner not Dan Reiters
*****
No kidding. I know that. lmao. Reading comprehension isn't your greatest skill set I see.
+Kaotic Krill Frank Wolfe only owned the penthouse. The rest of the building was owned by someone else who didn't live nearby and had no further interest in the building.
Amazing video!
from 8:10 to 9:00 you can imagine the operators in there going"fak!"
They ruined so much work and it was such a nice place of history
Man's trying to open the vault ??? strange ... hmmmm
I think I see ***** at 4:52 !!!
+zdoginterprise I don't think it's him. No beard!
That's what I thought at first, don't think it is though.
where's the vault? almost crushed by the floor falling just missed the cab.
probably built a block of identical condos on the land
left to weeds even to this day
nice video!!
Dumb & Dumber running the Cat.
Bryce Cannon I was really impressed by the very talented cat operator. He obviously knew what he was doing. The whole building has been brought down and nobody got hurt. I'm sure if he had his way, he would have done it with a much bigger machine with a camera on the arm. He did all of this viewing from inside the cat, without a monitor.
Why did it get knocked down?
The place had been abandoned for years and it had been thoroughly pelted by hurricanes. Also according to locals the place was a "Complete eye sore"
Too expensive at the time to replace all the glass with hurricane safety glass and with all the leaks and neglect the building became an eyesore. Fighting over responsibility to upgrade, lawsuits, etc.
If I were a millionaire, I would've bought the land and built a brand new, bigger, better, and taller Glass Bank in it's place.
Why didn't they just tnt the whole mess ?? Saw Adam here !
Because the building wasn't stable enough
So much effort to take it down that way, Fuel, renting equipment, paying the men the labor hours, time to take it down then get it loaded into a dumpster or something which also cost money to haul it out.
Can't you simply just implode the building and then save so much time?
+Dean Borchert well that would make sense
Population center, building isn't large enough to implode. And hey, it makes some extra work.
Can they reuse some of the material like the broken concrete to build other buildings with? I would hate to see that broken concrete go to waste and not be reused for other buildings...
Robert Moore No unfortunately the building was covered in asbestos:/
Thats not a vault there is no support under it..
SAD VERY SAD
Did they notify woof that they were tearing the place down? He lived in the top floor.
He died before they started the demolition