"The Apartment Complex Of Anarchy" (3101 6th St. N.) Goes Down, Story In Pictures, PART ONE

Photos By John Hoff and Jeff Skrenes

In the top photo, a single forelorn blue plastic clothes hanger is visible in the corner of a room as the Backhoe of Doom does its merciless work. At one point a guy in a silvery car pulled up and spoke to Jeff Skrenes, saying, "That used to be my kitchen."

"That's crazy!" Jeff said, agreeably, and avoided saying anything like, "What did you cook up in that kitchen? CRACK? Because that's why this place is coming down, and good riddance" or maybe "how much did you get for the copper pipes out of your kitchen?" or...or...

Sympathy is in short supply, here. No, rather, IT'S TIME TO DANCE THE HULA. 

Second photo, the attic crawl space is exposed. In the third photo, the backhoe is halted due to a broken hose, which caused liquid to spurt all over the scoop. The little boy is named "Jevin" and he is the son of the guy operating the backhoe. In the bottom photo, Jevin (age 2) stands with his dad. Though quite young, Jevin already knows what he wants to be when he grows up: a maker of fine-quality toothpicks. 

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