HOUSTON – The historic downtown Houston Club Building was imploded Sunday morning.
The Rusk building was designed in 1954 for the city's power players. The Houston Club moved to One Shell Plaza in recent years.
Crews detonated more than 500 pounds of explosives to bring down the building. It took less than a minute for the building to collapse.
Local 2 spoke with one family with three generations watching the implosion.
"I remember as a kid, my father brought me out, so I wanted to return the favor to my kids," said Rick Sonora.
"It was an experience, and now that I have grandkids, you have to bring them over and let them experience it, at least one time," said Jack Sonora.
STREET CLOSURES
Many major thoroughfares will be closed in downtown Houston due to the implosion.
The demolition will take place at 811 Rusk Street. The following are the borders of the area shut down: From Smith Street to McKinney Street to Fannin Street to Prairie Street. That means Milam, Louisiana, Rusk, Travis, Main, Walker, Capital and Texas streets within that area will be impacted, especially on the day of implosion.
Click here to see a map of street closures.
We'll bring you the implosion on Local 2 News and Click2Houston.com when it happens.
BUS DETOURS
The following METRO bus routes will be detoured starting Friday, Oct. 17, at 7 p.m.
•3 Langley
•3 W. Gray
•37 El Sol
•44 Acres Homes
•56 Airline
•78 Irvington
•102 Bush IAH
•108 Veterans Memorial
•137 Northshore
•209 Kuykendahl/Spring P&R
•249 Bay Area/Fuqua/Monroe
•259 Kingwood/Townsend/Eastex P&R
Additional routes will be detoured beginning on Sunday, Oct. 19, at the start of service. For a complete list of the routes impacted, click here.
PARTIAL METRORAIL SHUTDOWN
There will be no rail service between the Downtown Transit Center and the Northline Transit Center on Sunday, Oct. 19, from the start of service until 5 p.m. Customers will be served by shuttle buses operating every 10 minutes during regular rail service hours. Click here for information on the service interruption.