Nearly a month has gone by since we crawled out of bed at the crack of dawn to secure our spots to bid farewell to Martin Tower. At 7:03 am on May…
Author: Jamie Makin
VIDEO: Martin Tower Successfully Imploded
After months of build-up and anticipation, Bethlehem’s Martin Tower was blasted into the history books this morning. It took only seconds to reduce the Lehigh Valley’s tallest building to rubble. Preparation work…
Martin Tower Demolition Day Information – 5/19/19 7:00 am
I began to write this post at 7:13 am on May 12th. Exactly one week from now, the last of the dust cloud from Martin Tower’s implosion will be settling and the…
Announcing the Phillyblast YouTube Channel
Technology has changed so much since we began going to building implosions in 1997. Our photos had to be developed from 35 mm film, scanned into the computer, and compressed to a…
City of Bethlehem Launches Martin Tower Demolition Website
The City of Bethlehem launched a new website today to share information on the upcoming May 19th implosion of Martin Tower. For now it summarizes what we already know, but they plan…
Bethlehem’s Martin Tower set for May 19 Implosion
After much speculation and anticipation, Bethlehem city officials announced that Martin Tower will be imploded on Sunday, May 19, 2019. An exact time has not been set, but it is expected to…
Welcome back to Phillyblast!
It has been nearly 15 years since Vivian and I bid an emotional farewell to Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. That was the last of the 23 implosions we attended from 1997 to…