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What stood for 78 years was reduced to rubble in about an hour and a half Tuesday afternoon, as workers razed the former War Eagle Supper Club on South College Street in Auburn to make way for a future mixed-use development.

Auburn alumnus Bill Miller, owner of W.T. Miller Demolition and Construction Services in Columbus, Ga., and his wife, April, supervised as workers Charlie Laney and Terry “Cowboy” Taylor began the work of bringing down the longtime night spot and former pizzeria.

The Supper Club, where generations of Auburn students went for live music and late-night entertainment, closed at the end of New Year’s Eve.

Taylor used a Doosan 225 excavator to munch down the roof and walls. He said that’s the easy part; scooping up the rubble and hauling it away will take longer.