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D9308-2
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- 1940-01-10 (Creation)
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ΓÇ£It's beginning to look like a real bridge.ΓÇ¥ This remark was almost universal Wednesday, January 10, 1940 morning among the twoscore or more prominent Tacoma business men who attended the first cable spinning operations on the east anchor site. Those in the photograph, who took official part in the ceremony, were, left to right, Everett Smith, president of the chamber of commerce; Commissioner John Schlarb, Mayor J. J. Kaufman, Admiral Luther Gregory of the state liquor board; C. E. Andrew, consulting engineer on the Narrows and Lake Washington bridges, and Cliff Yelle, state auditor and member of the toll bridge authority, and far left, an unidentified construction crew member. The only woman on the platform was Mrs. Doc Weathers, who was added to the party to give it a feminine touch. (TNT 01/10/1940 A1)
Bridge construction--Tacoma--1930-1940; Bridges--Tacoma; First Narrows Bridge; Galloping Gertie;