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Demolition company employee Mike Shrosbree takes a short break after helping to tear down Bassett Furniture Co.

I'd like to add a personal experience I had right after the big "Q". I really wanted to go uptown and photograph the area - particularly the buildings that were condemed and that were destined for the wrecking ball (and there are a lot of them.) So I got our camera and a bunch of lenses and film and put on my photo-journalist vest and prepared to cross police lines to get my shots. Well, uptown was and is truly a disaster - policee, merchants, disaster freaks from out of town, news media people, and lots of other assholes with cameras. I took a couple of shots, and was prepared to go blow a few more rolls when I ran into Harry Ames, his daughter, and his son-in-law on the corner of Greenleaf and Philadelphia. Harry and his family had owned and operated one of the best used bookstores in the area since 1968. Ever since he opened, when I used to ride my bike to his store every Saturday, for 19 years I have been a steady customer of Ames bookstore. His daughter, Dolores, was in tears. It seems that the police had told them they'd