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Item
Title
D8379-10
Date(s)
- 1939-05-27 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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Hylebos Bridge Opening Ceremony on May 27, 1939. Officials pose on the running board of a Ford sedan with sound equipment and a banner advertising the bridge opening. Celebration Chairman Joe Macek, center, Robert Allen right. Later, the officials would cross the bridge on the vehicle announcing its opening. The opening was ceremonial only. It would be a few days before the state would take delivery of the bridge from the contractor and turn it over to the city of Tacoma. (T. Times)
Hylebos Bridge (Tacoma); Bridges--Tacoma--1930-1940; Vertical lift bridges--Tacoma--1930-1940; Macek, Joe; Allen, Robert; Celebrations--Tacoma--1930-1940;