The Galloping Gertie
My friend Stacey lives in Minneapolis and luckily was not on the bridge over the river at the time of its collapse.
Which reminded me of the footage I’ve seen of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (also known, ominously, considering its fate, as “Galloping Gertie”) tearing itself to pieces in a high wind in 1940.
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