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5 January 2025
Did you know that the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge began on this day in 1933. It was completed on 19 April 1937. That makes the bridge about 88 years old. I’ve been over and under the bridge, but not in five or six decades. It is golden bridge, across the golden straight, in the golden state. I wonder about the age of such manmade constructions and what it takes to keep them safe. I’d driven across the I35W Mississippi River Bridge in Minneapolis several times a few years ago. It was only about 40 years old when it collapsed a few years later.
“Roads do not upgrade or maintain themselves. Bridges do not repair themselves or rebuild themselves.” - Martin O’Malley
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that was a day…
i was on a Northwest flight landing in Minneapolis, in those days, you had to turn off your phones during flight
as soon as we touched down & turned on our phones EVERYBODY’S phone sounded at once
we all knew instantly it was bad before we even said “hello?” into our devices…
on another note, to know true terror, did you ever drive over the Huey P Long in the 1970s…
@[email protected] @[email protected] I had people calling me about the I-35W bridge about a year after I’d left the Twin Cities. "Are you OK??” “Why? What happened?” "Uh, maybe turn on the TV?” "Oh shit.”
My first apartment was right on the river downtown with a nice view of all the bridges.
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No, I wasn’t in Louisiana in the 70s.
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imagine the Huey P with more narrow lanes & much bigger cars
it was… an experience
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oh, & we were allowed to get our driver’s license at age 15 so you better believe people like me were on the roads!
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