Originally constructed in 1911, the Montagu, née Montague, née Hotel Cotton, was imploded this morning. We’re gonna miss the gigantic roaches, but we got tons of pics of the blast for our scrapbook. — Keith Plocek

This article appears in Jan 17-23, 2008.

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