{"id":13882,"date":"2017-11-20T14:10:00","date_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/2017\/11\/20\/watch-on-georgia-domes-final-day-atlanta-bids-farewell-with-a-bam\/"},"modified":"2017-11-20T14:10:00","modified_gmt":"2017-11-20T14:10:00","slug":"watch-on-georgia-domes-final-day-atlanta-bids-farewell-with-a-bam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/associatednews.us\/content\/watch-on-georgia-domes-final-day-atlanta-bids-farewell-with-a-bam\/","title":{"rendered":"WATCH: On Georgia Dome's Final Day, Atlanta Bids Farewell With A Bam"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\n The Georgia Dome implodes during a scheduled demolition Monday. The stadium played host to the 1996 Olympic Games, two Super Bowls and Atlanta Falcons home games.<\/p>\n

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As an icon, the Georgia Dome stood commandingly on the Atlanta skyline. Host to the 1996 Summer Olympics, two Super Bowls and countless Atlanta Falcons home games, the imposing stadium was a fixture for roughly 2 1\/2 decades, since its completion in 1992 at a cost of $214 million.<\/p>\n

Now, it’s little more than a massive heap of concrete, steel and fiberglass.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, city authorities brought the building down, executing a carefully planned implosion in the early morning light. The demolition took some 4,800 pounds of explosives, including about 4,500 pounds of dynamite, according to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Huge blast walls set up around the stadium shielded its successor and next-door neighbor, the Mercedes-Benz Stadium. That dome opened already in August this year.<\/p>\n

The Journal-Constitution<\/em>offered a glimpse<\/a> of the Georgia Dome’s storied past:<\/p>\n

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But hey, why not get another look at that implosion in slow-motion … and on loop.<\/p>\n

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GOODBYE GEORGIA DOME: Here is NewsChopper2 video of the @GeorgiaDome<\/a> demolition: https:\/\/t.co\/oILFX7EZuT<\/a>pic.twitter.com\/C8rRtzddgt<\/a><\/p>\n

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Here at the Two-Way, we’re no strangers to a good planned implosion video. Indeed, blog co-founder (and current standards and practices editor) Mark Memmott<\/a> probably put it best: “We like videos of bridges and buildings and other things being blown up on purpose.”<\/p>\n