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D30202-6
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- 1947-10-25 (Creation)
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In October of 1947 a tall, timber scaffold supported the new East 34th Street bridge as construction of the bridge neared completion. The new 550 foot concrete bridge, which spanned the "Tacoma Eastern Gulch", was built to replace an earlier wooden bridge, built in 1915, that had been condemned in the spring of 1943. When the new bridge finally opened in January of 1948 the McKinley Avenue Business Club sponsored a parade in celebration. The residents of the McKinley Hill district had been without a passable bridge for 4 1/2 years.
Trusses--Tacoma; Girders--Tacoma; Hoisting machinery; Bridge construction--Tacoma; Structural frames--Tacoma; Truss bridges--Tacoma; Timber Structures, Inc. (Seattle); East 34th Street Bridge (Tacoma);