May 13, 1990 — A pile of rubble sits along the roadside on Shenandoah’s Front Street. The rubble of bricks and mortar is what’s left of two of six silos that Elwin Laughlin and his neighbor Alvin Anders of Mount Jackson pulled down in front of a crowd of spectators last week.
“There were more people downtown watching the destruction of the silos that have been down there for 10 years,” said Town Councilman Jack Van Hyning, who estimated the crowd at around 50 residents.
In a court battle with the Town of Shenandoah, Laughlin was ordered to raze two of the six grain silos April 24 in Page County Circuit Court. With a May 8 deadline, he initiated the project April 30 and late in the afternoon May 3 Shenandoah residents heard a loud thud and witnessed mounds of dust rising from the property which lies adjacent to the Va. 602 underpass, the Norfolk- Southern Railroad and Front Street.
~ From the public archives of the Page News and Courier
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