With the booming blasts that sounded off like a 21-gun salute, spectators gathered as Houston said goodbye to the Ben Milam Hotel on Sunday, December 9, 2012. The 80-year-old building that stood across from Union Station had been closed since the 1970s, and was imploded to make room for a 380-unit apartment complex covering the area where the Ben Milam Hotel was built in 1926.
Check out our slideshow of the blast, and after the jump, a video of the moment of implosion.
Video by Abrahán Garza.
This article appears in Dec 6-12, 2012.
