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The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, with a main span of 2,800 feet (850 m), was the third-longest suspension bridge in the world at that time, following the George Washington Bridge between New Jersey and New York City, and the Golden Gate Bridge, connecting San Francisco with Marin County to its north.
The bridge had been nicknamed "Galloping Gertie" by local residents because of its tendency to sway with the slightest breeze, and these appear to have been gale force winds. The film was used in newsreels, has been featured in university lectures for decades, and joined the National Film Registry list of important American cinema.
The Tacoma Narrows Bridge is a pair of twin suspension bridges that span the Tacoma Narrows strait of Puget Sound in Pierce County, Washington. The bridges connect the city of Tacoma with the Kitsap Peninsula and carry State Route 16 (known as Primary State Highway 14 until 1964) over the strait.
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Ruins (Galloping Gertie) 1940 1992-08-31 Tacoma: Pierce: Suspension: Toppenish–Zillah Bridge: 1947 1995-05-24 Toppenish: Yakima: Reinforced concrete box girder: University Bridge: 1915, 1919 1982-07-16 Seattle
Tacoma_Narrows_Bridge_destruction.ogv (Ogg multiplexed audio/video file, Theora/Vorbis, length 2 min 30 s, 640 × 480 pixels, 1.07 Mbps overall, file size: 19.16 MB) This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons .
In 2009, a man in a red sweatshirt identified as Christian Robert Basham was seen walking towards the midspan of the Tacoma Narrows bridge, according to a Kitsap Sun story published March 28, 2009 ...
Alan Thomas thought about Hawaii as he sat in traffic during the recent emergency repairs on the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. Crews on Kauai switch the direction of one of the lanes during rush hour on ...
"Galloping Gertie" is a 1975 saloon piano song by Sam Fonteyn. The song was featured in "Blackened Sponge" (season five, episode fourteen) ...