Undercroft kitchen demolition

A great crew of nearly two dozen intrepid folks showed up today to disconnect plumbing and electrical lines, pry cabinets off the walls, pound holes in countertops and generally create havoc, all in the name of saving us a few thousand dollars on demolition costs. Working against a deadline of the need for quiet for a wedding going on in the sanctuary, the job took a couple of hours of actual demolition, preceded by a few hours of sorting and packing. On Monday, the mechanical contractors will come to shut off the gas lines so that the stoves/ovens can be moved, and work will begin on the kitchen remodel. We anticipate being without any kitchen in the building for week or so, but pretty soon the little kitchen upstairs should be in service for after-worship coffee and other events.
My favorite picture from above is the bucket of old plumbing pipes. The one pipe has a huge rusted gash in it, and obviously has been that way for some time. We also found some treasures: a kitchen use handbook that warned us all not to smoke while preparing food, a set of pictures of wedding cakes from the 1950's ($20 for a cake that served 200), and an old "quantity" cookbook for church. That one contained, among other things, a Mexican gelatin salad. Yum.