Howard Clifford running off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge during collapse, Tacoma, Washington
Howard Clifford running off the Tacoma Narrows Bridge during collapse, Tacoma, Washington, November 7, 1940
Photographer:
Unknown
Subjects (LCSH):
Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Tacoma, Wash. : 1940)
Bridges--Washington (State)--Tacoma Narrows
Bridge failures--Washington (State)--Tacoma
Clifford, Howard
Digital Collection:
Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collection
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Item Number: FAR021
Persistent URL:
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striatic, BigBean, jeshio, as young as yesterday, and 29 other people added this photo to their favorites.
BigBean (34 months ago | reply)
some very dramatic footage of the disaster:
www.archive.org/details/SF121
Walker Beach (12 months ago | reply)
great photo. better known in the PNW as "Galloping Gurdy"... now, TNB.
Suspensionstayed (11 months ago | reply)
In 2007 prior to the 2nd Tacoma Narrows Bridge being officially opened to motor vehicles, they held a run finishing and ending on the bridge with all the participants receiving a 'I Ran the Span' T-shirt. Somebody came up with this clever T-shirt for the original I Ran the Span...
jose antonio Corzo (11 months ago | reply)
maravillosa