The Woodwards Implosion
July 25th, 2011 by Randy 0It was almost five years ago that 3/4 of the Woodwards Department Store lot was demolished in a huge, orchestrated series of explosions.
Bill, his son, and I came downtown at 4:30 am on the morning of the implosion, and went to “work” at our office in the Dominion Building — the first year of our tenancy as top-floor occupants. In reality, we were there to record the closest building demolition we would probably ever witness.
Bill set up his camera on a…
Mint Records has been in the Hastings and Cambie neighbourhood for years and years, well, since 1993, if not earlier. And we’ve borne witness to the restaurant space in the basement of the Dominion Building seemingly continuously rotate with tenants, from Jackson’s Beef House to Route 66 to The Victory to The Mouse & Bean to its newest incarnation, Nuba.
