Peoria High School - Crest Yearbook (Peoria, IL)

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Only a moment before the blast leveled the old Jefferson Hotel Sunday morning, November 19, 1978, a tat- tered scrap of curtain waved from a seventh floor window, as if in ghostly farewell. Then came the muted blasts and the hotel folded and collapsed like an empty gunny sack, leaving a huge cloud of dust billowing off to the southeast, like a thick fog. It took nearly 10 minutes for the dust to settle and for the eye to perceive the massive pile of rubble remaining, behind which the top floors of the annex still stood. Something prophetic and sad about this fall. Something awesome, too, in the kind of controlled demolition that seems to erase 65 years of history, almost a lifetime, in a matter of seconds. One moment a part of the city sky- line, one of those fixtures that seem immutably in place, and the next, nothing. Buildings of course hold people, events, things. Not memories, which exist only in the mind. And yet there are rich echoes here, memory- inspiring, not only of the great days of proms, wedding receptions and parties, but of the lesser ones, too, when old people sat in these quiet, darkened rooms and looked over the city, waiting, waiting. 13' ,KKK W is 1, EWKK V,,-V , 1 f,--f 17, 11111, 1 ,Y , 1. .rn ,, X ' H x 1 , '11 fav' ,---i 1511 1 if 1 1 f f 4: '11 , ff if I ,, if 55 1, Z1 1 ' 1 1 1 11 1 ,-,. ,. - H 11 1' ti if 1 1 1 5 H11 1 ' F 1 'i' 111 1 , I 1 1 11 I 11 :f r 7 5, 2 1- .t.,, W1 1, 4 Q tii. 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 ll 1 1 1 1 1 llll .1 1 Z!- if if ' W1 71, 1 -1 Y cttw, ,: - ?1 n.f..2'.'S.T- 15 1fglil,,1, ,silt gm , 5 H KJ K M Q ...,. , ,air 1,. K KK K , ,1111ri:zw it L 1 1 1 fl' 1 fY'lfi,,.i. f!Fl FU'Y11 1 1 1 . 11, I., 1 , 1 1 i 5, 1 L., 4, -51 , 1 ..i - swf' A 1 111-i - '1 1 1 ' J ' ' .-'mm W 1 1 T l'i -- 1 . 'lil 1' 1 1 it 1 ,,., K 2 K K Virk, K .K ,, 1 1 t,,.,, ifiiii 1111 1 1. 'A' .4 if 'l . 11 'i-, 511 1 -'--- .. .,,.f. , 11 , 1 1 1522 ! KK A VIL' K 1 ., ,,., ,1K,K . Y KM, 5 1- 1--X -'-- -'-.i I 1 ,i.., 11 1 , T1 ' ffm '- wi' i i'i' c 11 is 1 '-l,-' f '1i, 1-if iii, Yfffeq . 1 -1' 1 sss I 1 ist tt, 1 1 1 1 - 11 i-l f' 13 E f 1 1 14 A 1 ii- 1 1 1 1' -i'i J .., Lf g 1 '1 1 1 . , 1. , , ,Q il -1 f 1 .1 1 113 - 5 i 1 11 i.,. 1 f-- as 'Afa5'i 4 1' 5 1 H11 1 ' 11- .. .1 t1:,1.'..1:1-:1 ,,f, 1 ..:f..: 1 ..fL. ,eq 1 .- ,11 ii 11: 1 -1,1 11111 :.fi , af-12 1, 1 121 1 11 y ff-f1. 1, 1 , gr, K . 1 . 11 ,nw K ' Mgjwg 111-Q if w 'iinfW 1 1 Hill' ,ft 1- , :a7aj, m5 ityi 1 1- 2:21911 :E?f21sw:M Gliily it 'J 'fi'-RVN' A 11 - 2 9E 'fm'IQ., 1 1-1.11511 11w11 fi! 1 N' 1 1 L71 1 2 1 illll slss 1 1 1 1 1' 11 11 11 1 1 11 W 1 11. 11' ' 1 gl K ,,,' 2 4' if 5 fits 5 11. it 11 I i . 1 -, i f 'KK'i' 1 1- ' XX11 tiff ,.... 1 -Q L.. s 1, 1 ,,-' ' 1 L11-111,11 .. 'i If 1 ,K 1 KK VVKL , E TKBKQ K K ' 1 1 1i 1 1 ,.,.. . 1 ,,..,,,., ,11f111WIfZf1 wg i'iftt '--'i 't-t 1 l , 1 1111 KK ,K Klan 1 1 11,1 1 1 1 1 T- V 1 1 1t iii 1 ,jljr 1 T 1 1 ,,1 - 1 K ,,, f,,L .Kg 11 1, KK K, xry 5 11 .,,,. ,1 , 1g,, : ,UK - K ,,,,' 1 1 ,V-1', 1 KK , k:,.1V 1 , N 1 1 ,,,,. 1,,, - - ,,1, , 1 1 ,,,, KK ,K 1 1K . KK 2 1 .1 1- 11 2-111 VVL1 11 .1 11 11 1. , , Q 111 ,. K 11 1 KKKKK 1 A1 1 1,35 l Q 11 , 4, A 1 1, . V11, -i' 11 Q ,, 11 , 1 1,1, M1 1 ,, 4k1r K1 K 1 KK, K1 K K, 1 1, 1g KK S 4 i W I 4 -- 1, ,11,,:.41: 1. 11 - 1 , 11 - ,1--ew 1 ' its ,1 a My 5, ,,.:1,.g V , -1 , Mfg' MRM Egan ij? MEG! W 1 156 E af .xv CISMIIQ M USINNKG l JFSWLPY 5 51 f ,,,,,.111 ,,-2 , ,,,1 w::1 ,416 , 1 15 ,K Q' 1 - 5 4 1 1 ? 1 K 1 i 1 1 1.,.. 1 i, ,ggK,, Kg' 1 11 5555, 9 fa 1. 1' 1 1 11' it 1 tv? . , if ' 11 , 1 iff I 52 Wm ,K ,A K r K mu KK K , 1 1 in 1 ii1i .1 1 11 if 1 1 11 1 .ff-M, 1 1 1:41 1111 ' 1 - 11 1.fmi.eil 1-11'1111 - - 'M 1,,, f -V ,. f--1 1 1 11f -f 4 1 iv , 11'-4' ' 1 1' 1 if : 1 1 'ir-' 1 ii . L' L 1'7 33- 11 1'11 We ' 1 1 , 11 1 111 1 j 1'11 3i2i a2111e15ii1 1 3 1 1:5' .f 1f-ff i 3 5 5111921111 ' ..' 111 - ' V' ii' -1225145 11 1 1 11 I -11- 111 111 1, ,,11 1 1-1 ' 11 1 -111,,1 1 1 11 11 11,1,1- 1i111-- 1 1'111 1,, 5 11' 11 H 1--111 ' 111

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