From Philly.com:"ED SNIDER is not sure if he can watch the day that the Spectrum comes down.
There have been too many good times and too many moments that the Flyers chairman will never forget in the building he built in South Philadelphia as a home for the hockey team he started.
But that doesn't really matter to Snider, because you can tear down a building but you can't erase the memories.
"I just keep telling myself that it's not the physical building that counts, it's the memories,'' Snider said yesterday. "I'm going to keep them with me forever.''
The Spectrum gets torn down soon. By the way, the sculpture pictured here is "Score!," sculpted by Gil Whitman, And erected outside the lower rear entrance of The Spectrum in 1976. I'm not sure if such sculptures will be saved or not. Perhaps one of our Philadelphia readers can inform us on that issue.
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There's no way they'd knock down the 'Score' statue or Kate Smith's both represent such an important part of Flyers hockey and the latter is a memorial.
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