www.pedestrians... Part 3. Demolition of Seneca Valley High School in Germantown, Maryland. A larger building was constructed adjacent to the old school on the same site. Produced by John Z Wetmore, producer of "Perils For Pedestrians".
One of the better demo videos I have watched. Lots of large scale destruction going on instead of nibbling bits and pieces. I suspect they were under a time deadline and the operator was told to get-r-done asap.
It was leaking even in the 90s, as I recall. My understanding is that the school was originally built with an open floorplan (some 70s era hippie commune crap) and was later modified. The school wasn't really designed to operate the way it had been for so long and is really a testament to whoever designed the building that it served as well as it did all this time.
Jason from Maryland here What a shame. All my memories gone. If Germantown wasn't so overpopulated this never would have happened. Been here my whole life, 41, when Waters Landing was in the first stages, the Original Cracked-Claw, Germantown Commons had the Hardee's, no EYE-SORE Topgolf...yeeaup..now it's just a small stupid mini Metropolis instead of the small town it once was, shame..
I graduated from this same school and probably went to school with you. I too remember when Germantown had about 30K people. My friends at SV worked at Philips farm after school. We would ride our bicycles there and if Gene saw you, she'd put you to work and send you home with a bag of peaches and corn.
@lizzie mcguire There the fluorescent lights you see in suspended ceilings in almost every commercial building. In the video you can see a bunch dangling from the trusses at 16:02. He can’t even shake them off. www.lighting-gallery.net/gallery/displayimage.php?pid=18683&fullsize=1
@@Ronnocbot The hallways had these weird square shaped fluorescents with tubes that were diagonal in the fixture. Classrooms had regular drop ceilings as I recall.
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@@JohnZWetmore I'm curious what interior work was done? Asbestos abatement? The walls in this school were all temporary walls that were added years after original construction because the school was originally designed with an open floorplan.
