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passat2800
 Post subject: Old Bridge
PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:22 am 
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This is a part of the 1st US hiway to go coast to coast. From Wash. D.C. to San diego.It passaed thru the Cahaba buggy trail.The bridge was built in 1916.I watched my Dad and his buddies target practice from it in the 60's.Dave is old.Image
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lngtrvl2332
 Post subject: Re: Old Bridge
PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:04 pm 
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That's a nice chunk of history. Look for Dunn's Bridge, Indiana on Google Maps (near my neck of the woods). It is a large chunk of the 300 ft ferris wheel from the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair. This spring I will get a nice picture of it. You can see the shadow of it on the river from google maps. A farmer bought it when the fair was over and made it a bridge to get his tractors over the Kankakee River. Now that is reinventing the wheel! :lol:
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MartinB
 Post subject: Re: Old Bridge
PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 12:44 pm 
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lngtrvl2332 wrote:
That's a nice chunk of history. Look for Dunn's Bridge, Indiana on Google Maps (near my neck of the woods). It is a large chunk of the 300 ft ferris wheel from the 1933 Chicago Worlds Fair. This spring I will get a nice picture of it. You can see the shadow of it on the river from google maps. A farmer bought it when the fair was over and made it a bridge to get his tractors over the Kankakee River. Now that is reinventing the wheel! :lol:


image on google street view.. very cool..
http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&sourc ... .64,,0,4.3
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passat2800
 Post subject: Re: Old Bridge
PostPosted: Wed Feb 09, 2011 11:26 pm 
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Wow that's too cool! :o
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passat2800
 Post subject: Re: Old Bridge
PostPosted: Sun Aug 21, 2011 9:17 pm 
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passat2800 wrote:
This is a part of the 1st US hiway to go coast to coast. From Wash. D.C. to San diego.It passaed thru the Cahaba buggy trail.The bridge was built in 1916.I watched my Dad and his buddies target practice from it in the 60's.Dave is old.Image

Now this is the bridge to no where. Greats such as all the old presidents had to have crossed this bridge back in its day.
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Go Big Or Go Home
 Post subject: Re: Old Bridge
PostPosted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 12:09 pm 
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I am surprised that they haven't contacted you to rebuild this thing under the "shovel ready" project list... seems like this would be a high priority...

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 Post subject: Re: Old Bridge
PostPosted: Tue Aug 23, 2011 11:01 pm 
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What is the shovel ready project?
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