Galveston's Flagship Hotel, Slowly Coming Down
Categories: Hurricane Ike, Texas
The musty old Flagship Hotel, the famous building on a Galveston pier, is a lot more airy than it used to be.
Shelby Scott Galveston's Flagship Hotel, coming down slowly
Crews are in the process of taking down the edifice in order to build Tilman Fertitta's Kemah Boardwalk-like "Pleasure Pier" in its place.
You just can't implode something that's out over the bay, so workers have been carefully taking down walls a floor at a time, leaving the above look to the place.
Nets keep debris from hitting the water.
It'd probably be a pretty cool place to explore and hang out in on a clear night, but there is security preventing it.
Shelby Scott
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