Atlanta airport tower demolition July 1, 1984

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16 жыл бұрын

A video of the demolition of the old Atlanta Hartsfield airport control tower. Built in 1961, the old terminal closed in September 1980 and the tower was demolished on July 1, 1984 to make way for the fourth runway. A very detailed history of this building can be found at www.sunshineskies.com/atlanta-...

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@TedMichaelMorgan 15 жыл бұрын

Heck, I remember when that was the new airprot!

@jasoncward 13 жыл бұрын

Amazing historic video, and you incidentally caught the old Eastern Air Lines building which was used in the 1950s era quonset hut terminal. More amazing would be if they would have simply kept the old building and remodeled it into a retro hotel, instead of building a "new" hotel which now looks dated itself...

@assaultislove 16 жыл бұрын

Some great old school footage. That tower was part of what was once the largest terminal in the world in 1961

@michaeltalbott4496 2 жыл бұрын

The MOST BEAUTIFUL AIRPORT THAT ATALNTA EVER HAD------WHAT A SHAME IT WAS DESTROYED! THE CURRENT AIRPORT IS SO PALE IN COMPARISON------REMINDS ME OF A POEM--"NOTHING GOLD CAN STAY'

@Brillemeister 14 жыл бұрын

My dad was 18 when the current terminal opened--he and his buddies goofed around one time in 1980 around this old building. Makes me almost jealous

@mcclanahand 16 жыл бұрын

Yes! We see how a control demolition works.

@022921 16 жыл бұрын

A lot of GREAT memories, GONE!

@pauljames2714 4 ай бұрын

40 years

@davidhenderson8898 4 ай бұрын

Hard to believe!

@miamivicepastels83 15 жыл бұрын

...and it went away so neatly

@stevis78 15 жыл бұрын

22 years later, the replacement air control tower was demolished. And this one lasted, what, 23 years?

@DaBlazesUSay 14 жыл бұрын

Just like they practiced it! I remember living in Lexington, KY at the time and watching this on CNN. I'm sure some of you were sad, but there weren't THAT many of you. I had heard that the place got to be a nightmare. And, most Southerners swore that you couldn't go anywhere--even Heaven or Hell--without going through ATL first!

@khatske 11 ай бұрын

What was the purpose of demolishing the tower for??

@davidhenderson8898 11 ай бұрын

ATL was building a new runway and the tower was too close.

@khatske 11 ай бұрын

@@davidhenderson8898 oh ok 👍

@DJHarrison93 15 жыл бұрын

Vary cleen and quick

@yerk3 13 жыл бұрын

@robaveley You'd probably feel the vibration.

@connorrocks45 14 жыл бұрын

this would be so cool played backwards!

@Kn270 12 жыл бұрын

It blew up like | | | |

@dark108x 9 жыл бұрын

Wow. It looks like an inflatable building that someone stuck a pin into.

@afiwubh4go9aiosugb 14 жыл бұрын

more like a terminal

@2W3X4YZ5 4 жыл бұрын

Just like WTC7!

@robaveley 16 жыл бұрын

Sheesh..... a major landmark there one minute, GONE the next. Imagine if ya was deaf, were standin there lookin at that old building just admiring it, then ya had a snezzing fit or something, then to look back and see it 100% gone without seein or hearin anything... you'd think ya was just TRIPPIN or somethin!