The rear of a truck clipped a corner of the   91-year-old structure at about 5:45 a.m. and pulled the whole thing down, police spokesman Sean O'Donnell said. No injuries  were reported. 
Passing pedestrians stopped to gape  Monday. 

The pergola, built in 1909 as a cable car stop  and as a grand entrance to a lavish underground restroom, was about 60 feet long and 16 feet high. It  fell to a pile of twisted wreckage on the cobblestone square, although  much of the upper canopy framework appeared intact. O'Donnell said it appeared much of the structure could be salvaged,  but no appraisal of the damage had been done. The graceful Victorian-style structure sits on a triangular park that is  the namesake for Seattle's Pioneer Square neighborhood, the area of downtown where the city of Seattle began. 

The area includes the site of the city's first sawmill, built in 1853 by Henry Yesler. The "skid road" on which logs were brought down the hillside to the mill gave rise to the term skid row for rough neighborhoods.   Although people down on their luck still populate the area, since the 1960s the Pioneer Square district has become home to fashionable shops and restaurants, condominiums and offices. The cable car tracks are long gone and the large marble and brass restroom has been abandoned for decades, but the pergola designed by architect Julian Everett has sheltered countless residents and  tourists from the rain. 
The canopy was restored in 1972 and it, the square's Tlingit totem  pole and the adjacent Pioneer Building were designated as national  landmarks in 1977.

Over the years, he sees two trains going north for every one going south. One day, he comments to a conductor that  there are two northbound trains for every southbound one. But the conductor insists that there are exactly as many trains going north as there are going south. How can this be  true?

Surprise!  Aside from people who just happen to have something in their eye at the moment, we cry at such times precisely because we are NOT happy.

Stories with happy endings remind us of all the happy endings we have not had in our own lives.  We compare fiction to real life and conclude that real life is the pits.

Psychologists tell us that tears flowing when a real life crisis is successfully resolved stem from the repressed fear and anger that built up when the outcome was in doubt.  Crying at a wedding or other happy time is unconscious 
dissatisfaction with how our own romances turned out.

See you just can't win.  It's enough to make a person cry.