Tiger Stadium - Demolition photos
Tiger Stadium
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Tiger Stadium on Sept. 11, 2008, as it waited to learn whether the original portion would be saved.
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Tiger Stadium on Aug. 24, 2008.
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The entrance to the Tigers team offices sits amid ruins on Aug. 24, 2008.
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An excavator bring down the "Welcome" sign at Cochrane and Michigan Avenue on Sept. 19, 2009.
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A crowd watches an excavator bring down the "Welcome" sign at Cochrane and Michigan Avenue on Sept. 19, 2009.
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Demolition on Sept. 11, 2008.
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The demolition company co-opted the Tiger Stadium sign to hang its banner in 2008.
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An excavator scoops up crumbs of history on Sept. 11, 2008.
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The Trumbull side of the building on Aug. 26, 2008.
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A look at the steel infrastructure as wreckers peel away brick and aluminum siding.
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An excavator bring down the "Welcome" sign at Cochrane and Michigan Avenue on Sept. 19, 2009.
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An excavator brings a rude welcome to the last corner of The Corner on Sept. 19, 2009.
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Destruction meets history where Michigan Avenue meets Trumbull.
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A field of dreams is turned into a field of debris Aug. 24, 2008.
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Tiger Stadium on Sept. 11, 2008, as it waited to learn whether the original portion would be saved.
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Tiger Stadium falls, looking west on Michigan Avenue toward Michigan Central Station
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The last corner of The Corner is nibbled away by wreckers Sept. 19, 2009.
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Supporters of saving the stadium held an 11 p.m. rally June 3, 2009, at the Corner.
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Tiger Stadium thaws from its last winter April 2, 2009.
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Paint chips in Tiger Stadium blue litter the ground as wreckers tear into the ballpark.
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The abandoned Michigan Central Station overlooks piles of debris shorn from the abandoned Tiger Stadium on Aug. 10, 2008.
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Demo workers reduce Tiger Stadium's offices to "Ger Stadium." Photo taken Aug. 10, 2008.
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The left field bleachers lie in a heap July 22, 2008.