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Item
Title
D8358-3
Date(s)
- 1939-05 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
Aerial view of Hylebos Waterway Bridge in raised position. The bridge was completed in May of 1939, for a cost of $380,000. It was a double leaf bascule design, with a center span that had a vertical lift of 135 feet and a horizontal clearance of 150 feet. It was 1, 060 feet long and connected the communities of Northeast Tacoma with the main part of the city. The bridge had been preceded by a wooden drawbridge and a single leaf bascule bridge built in 1925. (T. Times 5/27/1939, pg. 5)
Hylebos Bridge (Tacoma); Bridges--Tacoma--1930-1940; Aerial photographs; Vertical lift bridges--Tacoma--1930-1940;