Overhead Bridge Construction

Here’s our present overhead bridge under construction in about 1948. It was opened for traffic in the fall of 1949. I remember well watching the workers build this bridge from scratch as I sat in my eight-grade classroom. Instead of doing my class assignments I would gaze out the window at all the activity. I guess that’s why I spent the best three years of my life in that eight grade. I was about twelve at the time of this photo and I remember cycling up there to the end of the roadway and crawling to the edge to hang over and look down the smoke stacks of the tankers sailing under.