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BOLAND-B12582
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- 1925-05-18 (Creation)
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View of Hylebos Bridge on May 18, 1925. Standing on two planks above the Hylebos Waterway, a surveyor is himself framed in a plywood form. A pipe-smoking worker pauses in the process of nailing down plywood. Both may be unaware that they are being photographed. A single leaf bascule drawbridge, using 240,000 pounds of steel, and having an 80-foot horizontal clearance, would replace the old wooden drawbridge pictured above. Costing $80,000, it would open on October 15, 1925. It would be ordered closed just ten years later by the War Department due to insufficient clearance for waterborne traffic into the Port of Tacoma. Photograph is misdated "5-18-24;" it was actually taken on 5-18-25. Photograph ordered by Hart Construction Co. TPL-6512; G15.1-024 (NWR clipping file: TNT 11-3-25)
Bridges--Tacoma--1920-1930; Hylebos Bridge (Tacoma); Drawbridges--Tacoma--1920-1930;