NEWSTALK 860 » prudential implosion http://ksfa860.com Fri, 17 May 2013 21:25:41 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4.2 Texas Medical Center Skyscraper Imploded http://ksfa860.com/texas-medical-center-skyscraper-imploded/ http://ksfa860.com/texas-medical-center-skyscraper-imploded/#comments Mon, 09 Jan 2012 16:28:26 +0000 Jim Bell http://ksfa860.com/?p=38535 For six decades, the building with the outline of the Rock of Gibraltar at the top was one of Houston's most familiar landmarks.  But Sunday morning, it took only 17 seconds for the first skyscraper built outside downtown Houston to turn into a pile of dust and rubble.

The former regional headquarters of Prudential Insurance, built in 1952, was destroyed to make room for a new building in the MD Cancer Center Complex at the Texas Medical Center.

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