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Item
Title
A80571-1
Date(s)
- 1954-01-26 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
Blair Bridge over the Port Industrial Waterway in the closed position, photographs ordered by State Highway Department. The bridge opened in November of 1953. It was a lift bridge structure, a double leaf Bascule span. There was a 150 foot channel between the main piers for the passage of shipping vessels. The bridge was constructed for a cost of $1,600,000. (TNT 11/13/1953, section D)
Port of Tacoma (Tacoma)--1950-1960; Aerial photographs; Harbors--Tacoma; Port Industrial Waterway Bridge (Tacoma); Vertical lift bridges; Bridges--Tacoma; Blair Bridge (Tacoma);