Good morning, 🐶🐶🐶
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.
No, I wasn’t in Louisiana in the 70s.
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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@[email protected] Heh, I was two years old in 1964 when we had an extended business trip in the Bay Area and lived there, so that this was my last encounter with the Golden Gate Bridge.
And I used to commute over the bridge in Minneapolis. It collapsed, it turned out, because it was built with some gusset plates of metal that was too thin.
It seems worth remembering that part of the Bay Bridge collapsed in the 1989 earthquake. That whole side of the bridge has been replaced now, though.
Yes, and then there are earthquakes, where the road moves like a snake. I haven’t felt an earthquake since leaving California decades ago. I wouldn’t want to be on a bridge during one of those.
@[email protected] When I was a teen I was in the old Princeton University hangar when that big slab of concrete shook real good. Someone asked “What was that?” and I speculated an earthquake. Though I was from nearby Kendall Park, where one could often feel blasts from the Trap Rock quarry. (There are enormous deposits of diabase in northern and central New Jersey.)
I once slept through a good shake in Ottawa, Ontario. I guess the epicenter was in the Gatineau Hills.
