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A9938-2
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- 1940-06-28 (Creation)
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On June 28, 1940 fifty proud construction workers posed for a group portrait in front of their most recent job - the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge. At noon on July 1 the official ribbon cutting ceremony took place at the Tacoma end of the Bridge. The men in this photograph probably worked for Woodworth & Cornell, Inc. whose concrete-mixers and expert gangs of cement-workers "blitz-paved" the Narrows Bridge, breaking all state records for speed and quality. Woodworth & Cornell Inc. used enough concrete on the bridge to pave approximately 15 miles of standard state highway. The gallant work of all the men and women involved in the construction of the First Tacoma Narrows Bridge was short lived; the bridge collapsed at approximately 11 a.m. on November 7, 1940, less than 6 months after its dedication.
Suspension bridges--Tacoma; Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma); Bridges--Tacoma--1940-1950;