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Could the ski shop have been the Skompt Shop? I'm not sure of the spelling, but I vaguely remember it.

It is hard to believe that it was done 20 years ago... I'm getting old.

I'll post other old downtown pics as I discover them. Most are still in boxes from when I moved to Florida.

Actually, I believe that part of the building was saved. The wrecking company had an accident while trying to demolish the smokestack (visible in the 'backside' picture) and the damage shown here had to be repaired!

Here are some pics of 50 Monroe during the 're-skinning' . I took them when I was young with a cheap camera, so I apologise for the quality. http://home.comcast.net/~nederland/facade.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~nederland/helmer.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~nederland/backside.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~nederland/backside.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~nederland/pitsch_oops.jpg http://home.comcast.net/~nederland/helmer2.jpg

[The indoor mall was introduced, and they were sleak and new, The jet age arrived, and influenced everything from cars (big gull wings) to clothes, to architecture, to movies, to everything, People thought that we were never going to go back to the old, that we would be in flying cars and personal rocket jet packs, ] I have boxes of old architectural trade magazines from the 1940's to the 1960's and they are filled with articles on how to modernize old buildings, showing before and after pictures of historic buildings being covered with new skin. I'm glad that we are moving away from the idea that old=bad.

Its my understanding that the original developer of what was then known as "East Bank" cut costs by using materials that were not recommended by the architect, to the point that the architects made the developer 'sign off' on the changes.