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
    content.lib.washington.edu/farquharsonweb/index.html

    Item Number: FAR021

    Persistent URL:
    content.lib.washington.edu/u?/farquharson,27

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    Comments and faves

    1. striatic, BigBean, jeshio, as young as yesterday, and 29 other people added this photo to their favorites.

    2. BigBean (34 months ago | reply)

      some very dramatic footage of the disaster:
      www.archive.org/details/SF121

    3. Walker Beach (12 months ago | reply)

      great photo. better known in the PNW as "Galloping Gurdy"... now, TNB.

    4. 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...

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