On Saturday, August 29, 2009, The Cowell Homeowners Association Board of Directors hosted a ceremony to dedicate the Smokestack Memorial, with Concord’s Mayor Hoffmeister on hand to cut the ceremonial ribbon.
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The Smokestack demolition occurred very quickly, but the work on the memorial has been progressing at a much slower speed. Mr. Larkins has been sending me memorial pictures all summer, and I finally published them on Cowell Historical Society site: http://cowellhistoricalsociety.org/html/memorial.html Here is a picture of Jim Kikker and Tillie Larkins getting their souvenir bricks [...] If you want a brick from the Cowell Smokestack, show up at the Crossings Business Office on Saturday, August 15th, between 9:00 and 11:00 am. Crossings Residents can pick up a brick at the Business Office on Saturday, August 8, between 9 and noon. The Cowell Homeowners Association is ready to distribute bricks from the Smokestack. Amazing aerial photographs of the Cowell Smokestack before it was demolished. Work on the new smokestack monument continues. The Official Cowell Smokestack Project blog is posting smokestack stories this week. The smokestack is down to just a few feet, the bricks are gone, and rumor has it that the demolition crew will be gone after tomorrow Today was a clean-up day at the Smokestack. Today’s Contra Costa Times has a slide show of the Smokestack’s demolition. The Smokestack is no longer visible . . . The crane, along with its pulverizer, is gone. The Crane Crew finished their part of the job about 2:30 this afternoon The second week of demolition has started, and the smokestack is barely visible above the trees. It’s been a busy week It’s the end of the first week, and you can’t even see the smokestack from Ygnacio Valley Road, anymore! The Smokestack is going quickly Day 2 of demolition has left a very jagged edge. Day 1 is over, and the smokestack is much smaller than it had been. |
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