In the 1980s Dad worked in construction as a laborer, and ultimately as a supervisor of laborers. The company he worked for in Nevada built a very high smoke stack for cleaning the air at a smelting plant of some kind. Building these stacks required scaffolding and very elaborate methods for allowing the chimney to literally grow from its base up into the sky. These towering structures could reach a hundred feet or more and every foot had to meet exacting standards for quality and safety.
The towering chimney Dad helped build was removed from the site a few years later. It was imploded with a series of controlled explosions and Dad said it was with mixed emotions that he watched it come down. Mostly he was awed by the thought that something so huge and difficult to build would be destroyed in seconds and that the building and the later removal of such a huge structure would occur in a very short period of his life time. One should be able to expect something that took so much effort and expense to build, would be standing there for generations to come. Somehow tearing it down in his lifetime just didn
The towering chimney Dad helped build was removed from the site a few years later. It was imploded with a series of controlled explosions and Dad said it was with mixed emotions that he watched it come down. Mostly he was awed by the thought that something so huge and difficult to build would be destroyed in seconds and that the building and the later removal of such a huge structure would occur in a very short period of his life time. One should be able to expect something that took so much effort and expense to build, would be standing there for generations to come. Somehow tearing it down in his lifetime just didn
