On this date in 1940, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm. Here are some things you may not have known about the bridge known as Galloping Gertie. The Tacoma Narrows, is, as its name would imply, a narrow strait in the southern Puget Sound between Tacoma and the Kitsap Peninsula in Washington state. Efforts to bridge the Narrows […]

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