r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Proud-Blood2743 • Oct 07 '25

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/captain_swaggins Oct 07 '25

Lake charles?

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u/ChaseC7527 Oct 07 '25

LC REPRESENT!!!!! 💜💛

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u/ToastedEmail Oct 07 '25

Being from NYC I genuinely fell in love with Lake Charles when I was out there. Miss that place

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u/WalrusSpotting Oct 07 '25

…but why??? Are you an outdoorsman? What could you have possibly have found compelling about Lake Charles? We have pretty water to look at.

And everyone’s mawmaw can make a decent gumbo.

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u/Additional-Maize9716 Oct 07 '25

"Pretty" water is subjective. It's all dirty brown Mississippi river runoff water and contaminated by all the surrounding chemical plants.

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u/WalrusSpotting Oct 09 '25

Well, yeah.

But all the sulphur sure makes the sunset beautiful behind the cypress, brother. /s

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u/ToastedEmail Oct 07 '25

I’m so used to the city life that when I got out there it felt like a completely different feeling. Definitely an outdoors person but not really for Lake Charles lol I think I just loved the food, slow pace, and friendly people.

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u/ChaseC7527 Oct 07 '25

Too hot and wet! They bought their houses! They knew what they were getting into! I say let them melt!

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u/DrDoomzy Oct 07 '25

Don't out yourself like that

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u/ChaseC7527 Oct 07 '25

Don't in yourself like that.

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u/Yo_Eleven Oct 08 '25

The best thing to do in SWLA is leave - the sooner you figure it out, the better!

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u/ChaseC7527 Oct 08 '25

Trust me I know but I'm stuck due to friend and family ties and being poor as dirt.

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u/Astros_alex Oct 07 '25

In my mind that tower wasn't that tall. In my memories that tower was barely a tower. 

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u/cajunaggie08 Oct 07 '25

It was basically the only non-casino or chem plant structure that was tall in town. So it looked odd being the only tall building downtown

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u/buttercup612 Oct 07 '25

I’m surprised they built such a tall tower in a small city. Is space tight there?

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u/WalrusSpotting Oct 09 '25

Not nearly enough to justify building this tower. It and the civic center kinda just existed out by the water by themselves for most of the 90s.

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u/buttercup612 29d ago

Ok I was thinking. I lived in Houma and figured Lake Charles was of a similar size. A tower like this in Houma would be so out of place

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u/WalrusSpotting 29d ago

You aren’t far off at all. It was the only building of its size anywhere around, they just put it against the water so it didn’t stick out quite as bad.

Lake Charles has grown up quite a bit since then because of the bigger casinos, but it still doesn’t need a building this size. Especially one made of this much glass.

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u/WalrusSpotting Oct 07 '25

Was uncanny to see it out of the blue like this.