The demolition of the Hudson’s building did in Ham Heaven. They didn’t cover up any of the vents in the building and when that huge dust cloud came it swallowed up Ham Heaven and the place never re-opened.
I watched the demolition from the top of Comerica Building parking structure and Ham Heaven was right at our feet. My car was ruined as well; I never considered that I had to change the air filter after it was hit by the dust cloud. There was a fine dusty powder over everything inside that car, and once I got home I vaccuumed the thing out, but never even thought about the air filter…the engine overheated and warped the block.
Anyway, I imagine the same thing happened to HH. Since I was looking down onto HH I noticed they didn’t cover their roof vents, in contrast to The Checker and a few other places, and that huge 9 story tall cloud rushed across Monroe, Cadillac Square, and BOOM. HH never opened again.
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