‘It didn’t fall’: How ‘The Leaning Tower of Dallas’ happened – and captured North Texas hearts

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The explosives fired at 7:45 a.m. on a crisp, sunny Sunday morning in February. They had one job: Bring down the most nondescript of nondescript Dallas office buildings, an 11-story hunk of concrete and glass on a mostly vacant lot near U.S. 75 and Haskell Avenue. For the most part, the dynamite did its job.

Stacks of concrete and glass crumbled into dust, sending a plume over the highway toward Uptown. A small crowd that had gathered to watch the implosion cheered…

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