Republic Aviation Corporation Hangar, 1994
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In 1994 the abandoned Republic Aviation Corporation plant was demolished. It looked nothing like it did below, circa 1953.
Top photo from the collection of Guy LaMotta.
I feel very bad about it, like the place has been desecrated. I spent a lot of my lifetime there, and we built all those historic places. It should have been preserved, part of it anyway. But there’s nothing we can do about it.
– Josephine Rachiele
I had a lot of friends who worked at that plant. I wanted to play the taps as they were taking the building down, as a dedication to them. I been watchin’ it as it came down.
– Theodore Padova