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2010-09-16, 11:06 AM
from Yahoo!:
By GEORGE TIBBITS, Associated Press Writer – Tue Sep 14, 5:47 am ET
SEATTLE – The dilapidated factory that helped make Seattle a high-tech town is being demolished after 75 years, a casualty of time, technology and tails that grew too tall.
Boeing Co.'s Plant 2, a sprawling but long outdated building between Boeing Field and south Seattle's Duwamish River, gave birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft. It was the site of Seattle's biggest disappearing act and a home to "Rosie the Riveter," women who built thousands of World War II planes.
more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_boeing_plant2
there's a slideshow, just wish the pictures were bigger than thumbnails....
By GEORGE TIBBITS, Associated Press Writer – Tue Sep 14, 5:47 am ET
SEATTLE – The dilapidated factory that helped make Seattle a high-tech town is being demolished after 75 years, a casualty of time, technology and tails that grew too tall.
Boeing Co.'s Plant 2, a sprawling but long outdated building between Boeing Field and south Seattle's Duwamish River, gave birth to some of the world's most significant aircraft. It was the site of Seattle's biggest disappearing act and a home to "Rosie the Riveter," women who built thousands of World War II planes.
more:http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/us_boeing_plant2
there's a slideshow, just wish the pictures were bigger than thumbnails....