FROM THE SOUTH 7TH STREET BUS STOP

(skip)Hautians are drawn to the Terre Haute House in its final days. Many circle it taking images into their memory, trying, perhaps, to square their remembered picture of the building with what confronts their eyes, a hotel with skin torn off and the insides pounded down to rubble. From the north or the east now, it is already hard to remember what it looked like last year or before. I remember a black and white photo my brother took from the bus stop where the South 7th Street bus stopped in the old days when the Terre Haute House was a part of a lively downtown. The Grand Theater occupied the building immediately north of the hotel and beyond it and across Cherry Street the Marathon runner logo marks the gas station (we called them service stations then) at the north east corner, and the south side of the old YWCA beyond that.
 
 
It was that view that was in my memory as I took the picture after the Sandwich Shop closed and the hotel was cold in the snow.
 
 
I wanted to duplicate the angle and came pretty close for an amateur with a handheld pocket camera. Here you see the vacant hotel before and during demolition.
 

 
More to come. (next... Progress)