New Haven Independent

Posted by: Leslie Blatteau | January 26, 2007 1:58 PM

Beautiful work jjred86. Wonder what Dick Lee is thinking now? Wonder what he'll think when that lot remains a parking lot for a decade? Ahh, progress.

Posted by: Cedar Hill Resident | January 26, 2007 4:38 PM

OHHH I am so still sad about this great lose.
With that said...
those are great pictures!!

thank you for sharing!

I even grabed some of the out brown piece and mailed them out to friends that wanted them as keep-sakes the guy who kids that did the deed was there to grabing some piece for his kids scrape book on the whole thing. He was such a proud dad.

Posted by: DMc | January 30, 2007 3:26 PM

I took some pictures last year of the partially-demolished Coliseum and a couple on the day of the implosion. They are here:
http://flickr.com/photos/oldangelmidnight/sets/1736940/

Posted by: Ralph Rechtenberg | January 31, 2007 1:00 PM

These pictures of the ruined Coliseum please the eye far more than the wreck that once stood there.

The next eyesore to be removed -- a suggestion only, since it belongs to Yale and not the city -- is the School of Architecture on Chapel and York.

Weren't the Yale architecture people the loudest voices in the clamor to save the Coliseum?

Posted by: Cedar Hill Resident | January 31, 2007 4:53 PM

Ralph
I did not think it was the most attractive building out there but it was unique and that in itself is why people may have wanted to save it.

All the great fun people had there .... be it with there friends and or family. There where a lot of good times and memories in that great metal monster.

PS you should see the new Yale building going up behind me. I thought it was going to be great. Yale school of sculpture ... it is a BOX. Where is the Old Ivy league School Style?? At least the Coliseum was a one of a kind.
may it rest in peace!

PS.If any of you guys doing the clean up find a bag pocketbook with silver studs my friend Sally left it there in the 80's let me know!

Posted by: Ralph Rechtenberg | February 1, 2007 8:06 AM

Cedar Hill

Is this the construction between Science Park and the Grove St. cemetary?

Ralph

Posted by: Cedar Hill Resident | February 1, 2007 1:19 PM

No chapel, howe and edgewood. I was just outside and a passerby said the same thing what an ugly building.

pic of the building going up not done yet

http://www.flickr.com/photos/happypixie/sets/72057594111762491/show/