Philadelphia Spectrum Roof Collapse

Today with the long process almost complete.

Philadelphia spectrum roof collapse.

The spectrum in philadelphia the long time home of the philadelphia flyers and philadelphia 76ers has been in demolition mode for several months now. Ike richman according to comcast spectacor pr man ike richman technical problems with the crane delayed the spectrum demo until tomorrow. Parkside wpvi a row of porch roofs collapsed under the weight of snow in the parkside section of philadelphia. Two weeks later on march 1 a cold front swept more high winds into south philadelphia.

Instead spectrum officials slapped a tarpaper patch atop the opening and kept the doors open. This is a video of the roof going down on the spectrum in philadelphia pa. This is the west end of the spectrum roof coming down wednesday feb. This time they not only uprooted the roof patch they widened the existing hole.

Spectrum roof collapse. This is a video of the roof going down on the spectrum in philadelphia pa. The incident happened round 10 30 p m. 23 accompanied by a recording of bruce springsteen s the wrecking ball there wasn t much to see.

Speaking of slow deaths peter forsberg will retire from hockey after a two game comeback with. There are no reports of any injuries. On march 1 1968 wind blew part of the covering off the spectrum s roof during a performance of the ice capades forcing the building to close for a month while mayor tate fought with then philadelphia county district attorney arlen specter over responsibility for the construction of the roof and the damage was repaired. Monday along the 4200 block of leidy avenue.

When demolition began at the spectrum nov. The roof however is starting to cave in. It happened in the 1200 block of south clarion street on friday morning. This has to be the slowest building demolition of all time.