[CityBoyDoug]

Originally Posted by mdiederi

Did a search and didn't find this one posted yet. Gerald Desmond Bridge 1967. (Construction has begun on the replacement bridge.)


http://www.newgdbridge.com/gallery/press_photos.asp

Here is the new Billion Dollar bridge. It will be the cable-stayed type which is all the rage these days.



This is how you traveled from Long Beach to Terminal Island before there was a bridge. This was a floating two piece pontoon bridge. It was built during WW II and was slated to last a few months. It lasted for almost a quarter century. I rode over this bridge many times on my way to the base on T.I. Back in the day it was called "the milk run". I was stationed at Naval Station Long Beach in the late 1960s. That old Navy base is long gone and is now a Chinese container terminal.