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Item
Title
D9412-1
Date(s)
- 1940-02-11 (Creation)
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Name of creator
(1919-1980)
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Three teenage boys on bicycles watch construction of the first Narrows Bridge from a hill to the southeast of the east approach. The bridge, later commonly called "Galloping Gertie," would open on July 1, 1940 only to collapse in a wind storm just over four months later. (T. Times)
Suspension bridges--Tacoma; Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma);