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Tacoma's Titanic: Taking photos a special challenge
Published August 11th, 2009 - 10:33AM
Simply staying alive at the bottom of the Narrows is a challenge, to say nothing of taking photographs there.
Tacoma's Titanic: A run for his life
Published August 11th, 2009 - 10:33AM
If it hadn't been for the dog, Howard Clifford never would have ventured onto Galloping Gertie that November morning.
Tacoma's Titanic: Life among the ruins
Published August 11th, 2009 - 10:33AM
Galloping Gertie failed as a bridge, but it made a tremendous reef.
Gertie’s first car to inaugurate new span
Published August 11th, 2009 - 10:36AM
The new Tacoma Narrows bridge’s opening ceremony will feature the first car to drive across Galloping Gertie on July 1, 1940.
Pieces of Gertie land in display in deal with Gig Harbor museum
Published August 11th, 2009 - 10:36AM
Gig Harbor’s future history museum will showcase pieces of Galloping Gertie, the first bridge across the Tacoma Narrows that swayed violently before blowing apart in 1940.
Gertie’s fatally flawed beauty set stage for sturdier bridge
Published August 11th, 2009 - 10:36AM
“It was beauty killed the beast.”
Bridge Progress gallops over Gertie’s grave
Published August 11th, 2009 - 10:36AM
(This story was originally published 2/20/07.) At first glance, the rubble doesn’t look like much: chunks of old concrete, rusted rebar fingers poking out of the sides.
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