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Old Posted Sep 29, 2012, 3:14 PM
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Interesting link regarding Devil's Gate in Weird California which goes into detail about some mysterious disappearances and the man whom Werner von Braun called the true founder of the American space program. Imagine bodies planted in highway land that was paved with asphalt the next day.

Now.
Google Earth

See Mysterious Universe for more.

The story of the Colorado Street Bridge is creepy and related.

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Spooky HDR toned version:


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Photograph caption dated November 13, 1929 reads, "Photo-diagram of the Colorado street bridge shows how a life net may be installed to prevent further tragedies at the "suicide bridge" from which 27 persons have plunged to death. A similar net would be installed on the opposite side of the bridge, both constructed like circus net. The "bridge of tragedies" is 150 feet high at highest point over Arroyo Seco."

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With most of steel work set in place, the suicide-proof fencing of the Colorado street bridge is shown as it appears today. The barricade is seven feet high with three strands of barbed wire along the top. Ninety persons jumped to their deaths from the beautiful Pasadena span before steps were taken to safeguard the bridge. Photograph dated August 18, 1937.

Publicity spin...let's call it the love bridge.
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A couple overlooks the Colorado Street Bridge, located over the Arroyo Seco in Pasadena. Two other local landmarks are visible in the background,the Pasadena City Hall on the left and the Vista del Arroyo Hotel on the right. Photograph caption reads, "Not many months ago this was 'suicide bridge.' Now the famous Pasadena span is the 'bridge of romance' for couples like Anne McGill and James Ford. This paper won a fight to have it screened." Photograph dated March 11, 1939.
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