"Only candy store and a vacant second floor will remain (left) when top seven floors of Columbia Building are torn down at 8th and Locust." Signs for Mavrakos Candies can be see behind scaffolding on the ground floor of the building.
A close view of the Columbia Building at 8th and Locust. The top seven floors of the building are being demolished. Construction debris is being poured into the back of a GMC truck, and scaffolding covers the front of "The Diamond Shop."
The top seven floors of the Columbia Building are scheduled to be demolished. Scaffolding can be seen around the exterior of the lower levels, where a candy store remains, and a Hemphill Construction truck is parked on the street.