I did work in this building 32 years ago and even though I'm heartbroken to see it come down, I also know how out of date the building had become. I'm glad to see the engineers did such a good job of imploding it. RIP HMB!
The end of an era! I never worked in this building but I gave some lectures and visited many offices here over almost twenty years at MD Anderson. The engineers who brought it down seem to have planned it perfectly.
I helped take care of the elevators in hmb. We also had an office on the 11th floor. Its sad to see it go, but glad those 60 year old elevators are gone!
I too have given lectures there and my kids when they were at the UT-CDC sang Christmas carols in the lobby. We watched it live from the Holiday Inn after getting booted out of a nearby parking lot that wasn't within the safety zone.
A part of my personal history gone. I went to nursing school there 1979-1981. UTHSC. I saw them working on it months ahead of time from MD Anderson Office building, where my mother is a patient.
Swish, That is a blessing, In Las Vegas when they blew up the " Dunes" hotel they didn't take it out first. and exposed a lot of people. You must have good contracors and regulators in Houston.. People are just not aware of the danger. In Las Vegas stays in Las Vegas as they say.. I am sure since it was the medical center they had knowledge also.. I am thankful and thank you for letting me know, it was done right.
This needed to be done. A functional building must serve its purpose in order to be worth maintaining. It was incredibly outdated and fixing all that damage would be impractical. From what I heard they have tried to rescue several valuable articcomponents including all the murals before they closed it down.
I remember this as the Prudential Building. Sorry it had to be demolished. However, I will never forget the tragedy of the the destruction of the Shamrock Hotel that used to stand not far from this site.
@hillbilly2bill Yeah, I agree that the air quality for one of the nation's largest hospital districts wasn't too good today. What about all the patients in the other buildings?
I really wish someone would position webcams throughout one of these buildings(inside and on the roof) before the implosion. The cameras would be a loss obviously but the videos could be spectacular.
Typical treatment of historical architecture in Houston, very surprised it outlasted the now vacant Astrodome which citizens of Harris County are still paying off bonds used to renovate the stadium for Ex; Houston Oilers Bud Adams, who eventually pulled up stakes in Houston after Harris County Comissioners Court had made millions of dollars of taxpayer funded improvements to keep Pro-Football in Houston, maybe the dome will go NEXT..!
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MD Anderson. Making another piece of Houston history... history
Great joke; thanks bud.
I love how they can drop it right in on its own footprint and leave the surrounding buildings untouched. Implosions are so cool!
I did work in this building 32 years ago and even though I'm heartbroken to see it come down, I also know how out of date the building had become. I'm glad to see the engineers did such a good job of imploding it. RIP HMB!
MD Anderson is a place of miracles. Thanks to all the great people who work there...
The end of an era! I never worked in this building but I gave some lectures and visited many offices here over almost twenty years at MD Anderson. The engineers who brought it down seem to have planned it perfectly.
I live in Houston and totally missed this demolition! 😮
Wow! what great video! my sister and i spent a lot of time at at hmb during my treatments at MD Anderson. lots of wonderful memories...xoxoxoxo
I helped take care of the elevators in hmb. We also had an office on the 11th floor. Its sad to see it go, but glad those 60 year old elevators are gone!
I too have given lectures there and my kids when they were at the UT-CDC sang Christmas carols in the lobby. We watched it live from the Holiday Inn after getting booted out of a nearby parking lot that wasn't within the safety zone.
A part of my personal history gone. I went to nursing school there 1979-1981. UTHSC. I saw them working on it months ahead of time from MD Anderson Office building, where my mother is a patient.
My mother worked there when it opened in the 50s. She used her pay to buy a convertible Ford Fairlane.
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I wish somebody had told me about this. I almost got blown away when I rode by.
Swish, That is a blessing, In Las Vegas when they blew up the " Dunes" hotel they didn't
take it out first. and exposed a lot of people. You must have good contracors and
regulators in Houston.. People are just not aware of the danger. In Las Vegas stays
in Las Vegas as they say.. I am sure since it was the medical center they had knowledge
also.. I am thankful and thank you for letting me know, it was done right.
I know the engineers that took down this building.... Sabre Demolition Corporation....Awesome job!
This needed to be done. A functional building must serve its purpose in order to be worth maintaining. It was incredibly outdated and fixing all that damage would be impractical. From what I heard they have tried to rescue several valuable articcomponents including all the murals before they closed it down.
I remember this as the Prudential Building. Sorry it had to be demolished. However, I will never forget the tragedy of the the destruction of the Shamrock Hotel that used to stand not far from this site.
@hillbilly2bill Yeah, I agree that the air quality for one of the nation's largest hospital districts wasn't too good today. What about all the patients in the other buildings?
I really wish someone would position webcams throughout one of these buildings(inside and on the roof) before the implosion. The cameras would be a loss obviously but the videos could be spectacular.
Pretty cool!!!!
my dad worked on that building to help clean he inspects for glass
sweet
Neat!
@Gabriela0323 I didn't see any airliners crashing into the Houston Main Building before it came down.
Typical treatment of historical architecture in Houston, very surprised it outlasted the now vacant Astrodome which citizens of Harris County are still paying off bonds used to renovate the stadium for Ex; Houston Oilers Bud Adams, who eventually pulled up stakes in Houston after Harris County Comissioners Court had made millions of dollars of taxpayer funded improvements to keep Pro-Football in Houston, maybe the dome will go NEXT..!
If the Alamo was in Houston they would have even bulldozed it by now.
And boom goes the dynamite
If I was driving that road and didn't have any clue what was going on I would be liek !#$%
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