Watch: Times-Picayune clock tower finally comes down, but it didn't fall easily
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The Times-Picayune clock tower at 3800 Howard Ave., a landmark familiar to downtown-bound drivers on the Pontchartrain Expressway and those crossing the South Broad Street overpass for more than half a century, finally came down on Sunday night.
But it did not fall easily or on schedule.
The demolition team from Durr Heavy Construction had begun operations around 10 p.m. Friday, expecting to topple the tower — the last part of the old Times-Picayune building still standing — in just a couple of hours, or by sunrise on Saturday at the latest.
But in the end it took about 45 hours, working intermittently with huge concrete saws, and finally bringing in three excavators pulling wire cables tied to the upper reaches of the tower, to yank it down.