'Galloping Gertie': Looking back at the 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse
Thursday marks the 84th anniversary of when the Tacoma Narrows Bridge infamously collapsed due to strong winds in 1940. The ...
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On this date: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapse
(WHTM) — The construction workers called it “Galloping Gertie.” Construction of the ... On Nov. 7, 1940, 40-mile-per-hour ...
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Release the kraken! Here’s why a Tacoma sculpture has been imprisoned for six years
First, there’s Galloping Gertie’s famous 1940 plunge into the depths of Puget Sound, and then there’s a local legend. “We were enamored with the story of the giant octopus that lives in ...