Workers this afternoon were tossing junk into a truck from an alley-side window of the decrepit, former Old Town Bar and Grill building, finished off by Saturday’s quake. A hardhat monitoring the work from the ground said they had a ways to go with clean-out. He said they found lots of junk but also some cool antiques socked away in there.

The stuff shoved out the windows by black-gloved fellows looked like papers and files and such.

The worker on the ground said demo might not begin for a day or so. And then they’ll go inside, remove the supports and start folding the walls inward.

“No big wrecking ball action?”

“No.”

Heidi Walters worked as a staff writer at the North Coast Journal from 2005 to 2015.

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  1. No wrecking ball? At the very least, they owe the city an old-timey TNT blast with one of those bike pump-style detonators.

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