East Toledo Acme plant smokestacks imploded.
With the push of a button detonating 86 pounds of dynamite, two brick smokestacks remaining from a long-closed East Toledo power plant crashed to the ground Wednesday.
The two smokestacks that once poured forth smoke from the coal-fired Acme power plant that powered the city of Toledo came down yesterday at 12:30 p.m.
Remaining after the demolition is a third tower, which will be reduced by about one-third of its 298-foot height. The mayor’s hope is to paint and decorate the remaining brick structure to look like a lighthouse, and then install a revolving red and green lamp, symbolic of the lamps used on boats to indicate port and starboard.
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