Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Remembering Galloping Gertie 83 years after collapse of Tacoma Narrows Bridge Eighty-three years ago, on Nov. 7, 1940, Galloping ...
Former Tacoma News Tribune photographer Howard Clifford holds an enlargement of a photo that captured him running for his life off the Narrows Bridge, nicknamed “Galloping Gertie,” as it convulsed and ...
The winds were blowing at 40 mph (64 km/h) across the Tacoma Narrows strait when "Galloping Gertie" began to bounce. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which connected Tacoma, Washington, with the Kitsap ...
TACOMA, Wash. (WHTM) — The construction workers called it "Galloping Gertie." Construction of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge started in 1938, and it opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. It was the world's ...
It’s the 77th anniversary of the infamous Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. Perhaps as incredible as the collapse itself is that it was captured on film by Barney Elliott, the owner of a Tacoma camera ...
TACOMA, Wash. — There had been plenty of warning before November 7, 1940, so cameras were ready when Galloping Gertie, the four-month-old suspension bridge linking Tacoma to the Kitsap Peninsula, ...
Foreword / Douglas B. MacDonald -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction : Bridging the Narrows -- ch. 1. Crossing the Narrows : idea and dream, ca. 1888-1937 -- ch. 2. Creating the first Narrows Bridge, ...
There is a famous 1940 film clip of the Tacoma Narrows "Galloping Gertie" bridge caught in the throes of its own rippling, wind-driven destruction. The film is most frequently used to demonstrate the ...
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