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- 1940-04-04
Part of General Photograph Collection
Unidentified workers laying concrete at the foot of the first Narrows Bridge. Construction began on the first Narrows Bridge, better known as "Galloping Gertie," in November of 1938 and the bridge was open to the public on July 1, 1940. It collapsed in a fierce windstorm just four months later on November 7, 1940. It took ten years with WWII and lack of materials intervening, before the second Narrows Bridge was dedicated in October of 1950. TAC-326 ; TPL-2757
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma); Bridge construction--Tacoma--1940-1950; Bridges--Tacoma--1940-1950;