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Name and location of repository
Level of description
Item
Title
D843-3
Date(s)
- 1937-10-13 (Creation)
Extent
Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Scope and content
River Street Viaduct under construction in October of 1937. Hoist engineer, Norman Brown, inside cab of huge railroad crane. Cranes hoisted 25-ton girders into place on concrete supports. The $250,000 tideflats viaduct spanned Tacoma's main line railroad tracks in the Tideflats. It extended from Puyallup Ave. to Canal St. and was built with federal monies. (T.Times, 10/13/37, p.1)
River Street Viaduct (Tacoma); Bridges--Tacoma--1930-1940; Bridge construction--Tacoma--1930-1940; Brown, Norman;