December, 2003 - Page 1

Posted February 9, 2004

When last we saw the Ormsby House, workmen had started stripping off its skin, the exterior stucco walls that covered most of the second floor conference rooms. This task, and other exterior demolition work, carried them all through the month of December. Below you can see the second floor in the midst of being stripped. Looks like the days are numbered for the FakeDoors™.

Over by the front entrance, most of the stripping had already been done. They didn’t want to bother with the insulation yet, so they just left most of it behind. For now.

A couple of days later, and they were making steady progress on the stripping.

A couple of FakeDoors™, their ornamentation long gone, try to hold their ground against the chaos around them. But nothing can stop professional demolition experts once they get started.

The corner of Fifth and Carson was home to a lot of stucco. Piece by piece they stripped it off, as well as demolishing the FakeRock™ walls on the ground floor.

They smashed mercilessly through the walls here at the entrance to the corner bar. Also missing is the Guns N’ Roses emblem that used to hang right on the corner of the building. We’ll hunt it down later in the update.

Looking up at the second floor. In this intermediate stage, some of the FakeRock™ still survived, along with a little decorative strip, but they were not long for this world.

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