When I arrived at the livery on Thursday, I found…no livery. In fact, I arrived just as the crew was leaving.

This was the livery when they started demolition:

And this was the livery eight days later:

The crew left a few of the old blocks.

Aside from those blocks, the livery was gone.

The loading dock platform is still there, but the ramp was filled in to make the site level.

With the site open and quiet, I took a peek into the Mack.

(The garage doors opening onto Jackson Street are just to the right of the frame.)

Wait, wait, I misspoke earlier. Not all the livery’s blocks had been taken away. A few were left to patch up the Mack’s damaged chimney.

Some of the bricks were left on a nearby windowsill.

The Mack needs plenty of work, but it has plenty of potential.

The livery demolition had lasted longer than I’d expected. After watching the Wolverine disappear in just a few hours, I thought the livery might be gone in a couple days. When the project extended past the weekend, I stopped wondering every day if THIS might be the day the building would be just a memory.

Then on Wednesday I showed up to find the final wall on the ground and most of the rubble gone.

The cleanup work drew a fascinated spectator.

Chelsea Farmers Supply has always been hidden by the livery. When the livery’s east wall fell, the farmers supply building became a lot more visible.

As the rubble removal progressed, the view north improved.

Come back tomorrow for the final post in the livery demolition series.

I showed up to the livery on Monday to find…a lack of activity. (Apparently I have bad timing.) However, I did notice the Mack’s chimney had sustained some damage.

I came back Tuesday to find…a lack of activity. This time it was because the excavator was having problems.

That didn’t stop Jon and Henry from checking out the scene.

With the back wall mostly down, the church behind the livery got a new view looking north.

It started to rain, so I shot a couple more photos of the rubble and left.