November, 2003 - Page 1

Posted November 30, 2003

November — the month where little happened. November had its share of destruction, but there wasn’t any construction to speak of. Actually, there wasn’t even much in the way of destruction until late in the month. All around a slow month.

They did manage to finish the three-sided scaffolding. West, North, East. But still none on the south side. Not sure why they’re leaving the south side alone right now. Maybe because of all the iron work that’s going on on the ground? That is the direction they’re expanding in, after all, and it’s also the only side of the hotel that currently goes all the way to the ground. The other three sides have a casino roof to build scaffolding on.

They soon put their scaffolding to good use as they started to rip apart the little triangle-shaped decorative thing (any architecture students in the audience know what that thing is called?) on the roof.

Folks were up on the scaffolding and on the roof hard at work smashing that thing. It was stripped down to nothing but the frame, leaving one to wonder whether it’s going away for good, or if it’s just going to be restuccoed.

After they were done, the skeleton of the triang-ly thing sat on the roof all alone. Only the one on the north side was decimated, though. The matching unit on the south remains untouched.

Move along.