The floor that just kept getting uglier

It was amazing, each layer that we peeled off was even more hideous than the last.  I can understand why they covered the previous layer up, but at some point someone should have said that his floor is getting a bit thick.  We used the circular saw to cut break points in the floor to pry up to, then used the wonder bar, a shovel, and later on a really big crow bar that I picked up from Lowes to do the prying.

The picture to the top left shows the top layer, whitish grid towards the top of the picture.  That layer was fairly easy, the next layer with the nasty brown pattern was a lot harder.  It had a lot more staples in this layer, so was a lot harder to pry up.  This layer was the last one prior to the kitchen being remodeled.  We know where the previous cabinets were by the pieces of drywall that was used to level the floor for the top layer.  A small bit of the drywall can be seen, bright white under the top layer, near the cabinet on the left.  The next layer down was stick on faux brick.  this has been the easiest layer to remove, it generally just scrapes right off.  The oldest flooring, and original is the lovely yellow and green tile.  Some of this came off as we were removing the layers above, and some was scraped off by an over eager helper.  We were planning  on leaving that layer mostly intact, but we will see what the flooring guys say.  It may come off the rest of the way, or it may be evened out with compound for the new floor to be laid over.  This is how we left it tonight.