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Hard hat workers watch as the jaws on the crane take another bite out of a damaged building in the 1100 block of Pacific Avenue.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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The crane and its jaws and the bulldozer parked on the 1100 block of Pacific for more demolition and cleanup after the 1989 earthquake.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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A bulldozer follows the crane in cleaning up after the demolition of buildings in the 1100 block of the Pacific Garden Mall

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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Less facade, more rubble after a day of demolition by crane.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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A crane is used to demolish and remove debris from a building adjacent to the Hotel Metropole.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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A crane is used to demolish and remove debris from a building adjacent to the Hotel Metropole.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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A crane is used to demolish and remove debris from a building adjacent to the Hotel Metropole.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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A look at one side of a block of Pacific Avenue that was completely demolished due to earthquake damage. The Hotel Metropole building was already vacant upstairs, though Plaza Books/Paper Vision was on the ground floor. Gensler-Lee Diamonds, Athletic…

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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A close-up view of the demolished store in the previous photograph; an appropriate warning sign calls the shop "unsafe."

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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A glassless facade is all that remains of an older building along Pacific after the 1989 earthquake. The solid wood fence has not quite reached to cover it up from the street. This could be the Athletic Express, according to this list.

Date: 1989
Type: PHOTO

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