Saw the demolition images...it looked liked those images of WWII when retreating armies dynamited steel-arch bridges on the Rhine, or the Danube or the Volga...
My mother, who passed away at the age of 82 in 2008, told me many times that her very oldest memory of her childhood was going to the opening day celebration of the bridge.
I'm so glad this video exists to allow me to experience that day in her memory.
If they were erecting the bridge today. The Obama administration would have a special program in place so the ferry operators could be re-trained. Of course the ferry operators would sue and it would take an extra 10 years to build the bridge.
You think the enviromentalist would allow a bridge like this to be built? They have been blocking the planned St. Croix River crossing from Minn to Wisc for 20 freakin years.
No, I do not think it is the governments role to offer re-training.
Yes, I think it is state governrments role to erect a bridge. I live on an island. NYS erected a bridge in the 1930s and charged a toll to pay for the bridge. Ten years later the bridge was paid for yet the toll remains. Probably to pay for a retaining program.
I was 11 yrs old when I found a $20 dollar bill ... My neighbor (Bert Green) and I rode our bikes to Vermont across that bridge, to the penny candy store. We watched the sun setting, and realized - we had a long way to peddle home. My mother was walking the bridge rode looking for me with a Cat-tails switch in her hand.... :)
I will miss that bridge very much, and I wish the people of Crown Point, Port Henry, Mineville and Witherbee well.
I loved that bridge! So sorry it has be torn down... :( If & when a new bridge will be built, I'm sure a toll will be added..someone has to pay for it!
This video even pointed out the ferries that the bridge rendered irrelevant, a ferry that had been in operation for 30 years. There were people back then who felt the same way as you concerning the ferry, and the bridge brought it's demise.
If it's sad that it had to be destroyed, then it's also sad we allow ourselves to become so emotionally attached to things that only seem permanent or worth the costly struggle against the forces of obsolecence.
It truly was... the Jamestown Bridge in Rhode Island lasted from 1940 to 1992... this bridge outlived it by 28 years!
Railer505 1 year ago
@Railer505 because it was built in hick towns baby
lucascutting53 1 year ago
At that time it WAS the pinnacle of technology!
(not just thought to be)
woodsprout 2 years ago
I'm really going to miss going across that bridge for most of my life
mastercheif158 2 years ago
Saw the demolition images...it looked liked those images of WWII when retreating armies dynamited steel-arch bridges on the Rhine, or the Danube or the Volga...
sbchelldiver 2 years ago
My mother, who passed away at the age of 82 in 2008, told me many times that her very oldest memory of her childhood was going to the opening day celebration of the bridge.
I'm so glad this video exists to allow me to experience that day in her memory.
rgbibeau 2 years ago 2
Nice.
If they were erecting the bridge today. The Obama administration would have a special program in place so the ferry operators could be re-trained. Of course the ferry operators would sue and it would take an extra 10 years to build the bridge.
traderjts 2 years ago
You think the enviromentalist would allow a bridge like this to be built? They have been blocking the planned St. Croix River crossing from Minn to Wisc for 20 freakin years.
mssedmebich 2 years ago
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woodsprout 2 years ago
I do not wish pay for anyones re-training nor their childrens lunch. I do not think it is the governments role. I think my attitude is just fine.
traderjts 2 years ago
traderjts,
You were the one fantasizing over a lawsuit and now children's lunch?
What about just simply re-training the people who served the public with ferry service, before they were replaced.
You want to pay for a bridge? Is that the governments role?
woodsprout 2 years ago
No, I do not think it is the governments role to offer re-training.
Yes, I think it is state governrments role to erect a bridge. I live on an island. NYS erected a bridge in the 1930s and charged a toll to pay for the bridge. Ten years later the bridge was paid for yet the toll remains. Probably to pay for a retaining program.
traderjts 2 years ago
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woodsprout 2 years ago
You need your bridge same as they need retraining.
The ferry people served the public, just like the bridge does.
If these people were in the military would you not retrain them if technology changed?
Would you even offer them a loan to retrain?
woodsprout 2 years ago
I was 11 yrs old when I found a $20 dollar bill ... My neighbor (Bert Green) and I rode our bikes to Vermont across that bridge, to the penny candy store. We watched the sun setting, and realized - we had a long way to peddle home. My mother was walking the bridge rode looking for me with a Cat-tails switch in her hand.... :)
I will miss that bridge very much, and I wish the people of Crown Point, Port Henry, Mineville and Witherbee well.
WorkingMotherof2 2 years ago
I loved that bridge! So sorry it has be torn down... :( If & when a new bridge will be built, I'm sure a toll will be added..someone has to pay for it!
AreWildZ28 2 years ago
So sad that the bridge has to be razed.
sparrow1222 2 years ago
Well, change is part of life.
This video even pointed out the ferries that the bridge rendered irrelevant, a ferry that had been in operation for 30 years. There were people back then who felt the same way as you concerning the ferry, and the bridge brought it's demise.
If it's sad that it had to be destroyed, then it's also sad we allow ourselves to become so emotionally attached to things that only seem permanent or worth the costly struggle against the forces of obsolecence.
TheJediCharles 2 years ago