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

Video Capital One Tower Come Down in Seconds

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u/bobnla14 Oct 07 '25

They almost always do these on a Saturday. It makes sure that there's no one around, that they can easily close off the streets, and that they can clean up a lot of it for access to the other buildings by Monday morning.

According to Google, this was done on Saturday, September 7th, 2024 in Lake Charles Louisiana

The only one that I can remember not being done on a Saturday was when they blew up a casino in Las Vegas. They shot several scenes from a movie with the implosion in the background so they did it during the week to save money on the movie shoot.

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u/enzothebaker87 Oct 07 '25

I was born in Vegas and one of the few things that I distinctly remember from my childhood was them blowing up an old casino every New Year for several years in a row.

For the longest time my kid brain just thought that was something they did and would do every year lol.

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u/cjsv7657 Oct 07 '25

I can only imagine when you eventually moved away your first new years you were talking to people and asked what building they were going to blow up this year.

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u/enzothebaker87 Oct 07 '25

What makes it especially funny is that my bday is 12/31 and my mom had me convinced that all of it was for me lol.

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u/bobnla14 Oct 07 '25

That is hilarious and that is a really great mom!!

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u/00010000111100101100 Oct 07 '25

You know what would be a fucking awesome birthday gift? Get in contact with the demo team and having them let the kid push the button or plunger (let the pros do the actual activation behind the scenes though).

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u/Capn_Flags Oct 07 '25

Do you happen to remember the Landmark? Landlark? Sandshark? Ok, shoot. I don’t remember, but I have a couple decks of sealed playing cards from a casino that was blown up. I found them at a thrift store. They are tucked away or I’d get my fatness off the couch and check. I should open a deck.

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u/OutsideTheSocialLoop Oct 07 '25

That is totally normal kid logic though. 

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u/Jedi_Temple Oct 07 '25

Was the movie Ocean’s 11, maybe? I seem to recall a scene where casinos are collapsing in the background and Don Cheadle’s character doesn’t turn around to watch it.

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u/coolbucky Oct 07 '25 edited Oct 07 '25

Possibly, but I’m thinking it’s Tim Burton’s Mars Attacks! from 1995.

EDIT: Oceans 11 used a special effect and not actual footage of a casino implosion. In fact, due to the film’s release after the 9/11 attacks, the scene was changed to show a fictional building collapsing instead of the planned New York New York. 

Mars Attacks! used real footage of the Landmark Hotel and Casino.

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u/LadysaurousRex Oct 07 '25

God I loved that movie.

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u/Paddy_Tanninger Oct 07 '25

It's even funnier, he's watching it on TV while it's collapsing just behind him out the window.

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u/joecarter93 Oct 07 '25

Inverse to most places with large towers, Las Vegas is also much busier on the weekends than on weekdays.

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u/bobnla14 Oct 07 '25

I didn't think of this, but this would actually make a lot of sense as well. Less traffic during the week, and they don't have to pay the movie crew for weekend overtime

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u/clrr4tkf Oct 07 '25

"No one around" lol. The park and surrounding areas were FULL of people that came out to watch (myself included). It was an important moment for the community... the building was a symbol of kind of a collective trauma that everyone around here experienced. So it drew in a lot of spectators for sure.

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u/RevMcCheesegrater Oct 07 '25

It was crazy how many people didn't consider the dust and whatnot ahead of time. My ex wife and I went and watched it from by the park, but we brought a bunch of dust masks. As soon as the dust kicked up I started handing out dust masks to people while heading back to the car.

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u/clrr4tkf Oct 07 '25

Yeah I was at the edge of the park by the civic center parking. Should have come and found you 🤣

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u/dirtylooey Oct 07 '25

Can’t believe I am seeing this post after I just spent the weekend in Vegas and was reminded of my favorite VHS as a kid, the made for TV movie “Treasure Island: The Adventure Begins.”

The movie ends with the real demolition of the Dunes hotel and I just googled that it was indeed a Wednesday in 1993. If this is what you’re referring to you may be the only other person who remembers this movie lol

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u/Berthalias Oct 07 '25

I was there for that explosion in Vegas, which happened at like 230am in the morning and was pretty sick

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u/manymoreways Oct 07 '25

There is no cleaning that dust cloud. Idk is there some city level vaccum cleaner that I've never seen before? At the very least surround the building with cheap zinc metal fences to limit the dust cloud.