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Title
TPL-561
Date(s)
- 1940-11 (Creation)
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(1919-1980)
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This is what the First Tacoma Narrows Bridge, "Galloping Gertie", looked like on the morning of November 8, 1940. The bridge had opened on July 1, 1940. It collapsed in a wind storm just over four months later.The failure of the bridge was credited to a faulty design which the engineers of the Washington State Highway Department declared was fundamentally unsound.
Bridges--Tacoma--1940-1950; Suspension Bridges--Tacoma; Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma);