Lowry Avenue Bridge Inspection. Lost Minneapolis 2005.

[htc6600]

Remember the Edgewater Inn?

[rayofminneapolis]

@htc6600 wow. Yes, I do, actually.

[josieday]

Thanks for posting this. A nice memorial. I just watched this bridge implode this morning; what a sight! This was a pretty cool video.

[rayofminneapolis]

Thanks Josie! I missed it this morning, but lucky there were other videographers there.

[Bekuhsibet]

the bike part bums me out..someone could be riding that baby...

[archibaldcutter]

fabulous.

[Viacomclosedmedown]

So that's where they get the "greenie" beer served at the base of the bridge at TJ's for so many years. Well at least we can drink in rememberance. Too bad though. I've been collecting footage on at least two swing bridges in the area.

[rayofminneapolis]

Well one of the "Bread Basket" designs has it's railings colored green. So perhaps that element will remain.

[akeemthashiz]

i hate that bridge

[rayofminneapolis]

why is that?

[teymusic]

thank you :)

love,

Tey

[TracyLea]

Another great video in your style....Loving it!!! Especially the rain and sunset part toward the end......

[eluko79]

I miss the old truss design bridges. The old Broadway bridge that they moved to St. Anthony Main still has a sufficiency rating of 99.9. North Mpls used to have the coolest bridges in the city.

[rayofminneapolis]

I remember the one between Columbia golf course and Saint Anthony parkway, fondly. I rode my bike through the construction period and I'm sure there are a few broken beer bottles entombed in the concrete replacement. Hopefully the last remaining truss up there remains untouched. It's got those wicked Gothic spike rails.

[KoNektiD]

LOL a sufficiency rating of 99.9? Go back inside Tony Jaros' and have another Greenie.

[eluko79]

Check for yourself.

[KoNektiD]

truss = façade

sufficiency rating = 0

Or did you mean the steel beam span holding it up?

[eluko79]

I didn't know the truss was just a facade. I just think that Minneapolis deserves better than the utilitarian mediocre bridges they build now. That might be fine for you, or some boring suburb, but I think I'll pass on that greenie. :P

[KoNektiD]

Jaros' needs patronage...

There is no creative latitude in designing bridges anymore. Owners want cheap, maintenance-free structures that provide much the same aesthetic quality as the faux wood grain plastic siding on the suburban houses you allude to. The keyword is 'cheap.'

[BigBrowz]

I drove over that a few weeks ago and all I could think is how it must suck to ride on a motorcycle over it, that steel grate bed will twist your tires anyway it wants.

[rayofminneapolis]

It's actuality very cool cause you can look straight through into the water. I really should make a bike video before it's gone forever.

[billyjay]

excellent footage. it seems to glorify the world that surrounds me.

[rayofminneapolis]

Ha. Light, architecture and atmosphere!

I'm kinda mystified as to why there was a crumpled red bike on the river bank below, at the same time I was riding a red bike. I change bikes frequently, so it's just bizarre.

[HondaManCR500]

Thanks Ray

[rayofminneapolis]

you are welcome.

[SomeCynicalGuy]

I love old bridges. There's this one toll bridge down here that used to link St. Paul Park and Inver Grove Heights, and it's absolutely beautiful. In the day, because all of the graffiti that's accumulated, and during the nights, because the river is lit up by the oil refinery on the other side. It's quite honestly one of my favorite places.

[rayofminneapolis]

Take a video trip down there if you can. Or maybe your cam is a usb only ordeal?

In any case, I'd like to see it... I'll just Google earth it for now..

[SomeCynicalGuy]

haha, yeah, I've got a USB only cam, unfotunately. I'd go out and buy a camcorder, but I'm actually planning on moving up there over around the hard times cafe in the next few months. gotta save up. I think I've got a few pictures I can send you though.