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TPL-4921
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- 1940-11-07 (Creation)
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Builders of the Narrows Bridge watch it die. A somber group gathers at the scene of the bridge collapse on November 7, 1940. It had opened just four months before to great fanfare. L to R: Washington Toll Bridge Authority Sec. Patrick H. Winston; Acting Highway Dir. James A. Davis; Project Engineer Clark H. Eldridge; Chief Engineer Charles W. Andrew; U. of W. Professor F.B. Farquharson. The 6.4 million dollar suspension bridge was built with money from the public administration grants and a Reconstruction Finance loan. The bridge was insured. (T.Times, 11-7-40, p. 1)
Suspension bridges--Tacoma; Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma); Winston, Patrick H.; Davis, James A.; Eldridge, Clark H.; Andrew, Charles W.; Farquharson, Frederick Burt.;