Coliseum structure collapsing behind spectators and traffic lights. The remaining structure collapses during the controlled implosion. A single instant marks the physical ending of a place that remains in local memory.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Original Commons page inspected for date, author, licensing and file URL. Distinct demolition phase. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: open_license: Commons CC BY 2.0; Flickr license reviewed June 22, 2018.
Source: David Richards / David Richards on Flickr; Wikimedia Commons
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Silent Grounds Collective, New Haven Veterans Memorial Coliseum, SGC-ED077, ED-N-coliseum-04, “Half way down.” Source: David Richards / David Richards on Flickr; Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Half_way_down_(363692398).jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-12.