Greetings gents! (And ladies.) I think of y'all often and just had to write with the sad news that I drove by the old John C Austin State Bldg site -- which I photographed and wrote about in
this post -- to find it has been completely torn up, just a field of dirt topped with heavy equipment. I didn't even stop the car to get a shot of the mountain of debris and detritus, despite the fact that it's full of all that nifty, now broken-to-hell, marble bits.
What I did flash on, though, was
what about the basement? They've regraded down quite some feet it seems, and then, what, pave it over? Sod it? Whatever they do, I want to know what's down there, given what was
sealed and covered over with earth in 1975.
Pretty well possible it was all installed in some Councilman's home by the end of that week; or just dumpstered; or stolen sometime who-knows-when -- but it's just as likely it's simply been forgotten about and remains entombed to this day. I'm marginally sure I can operate a backhoe...