The winds were blowing at 40 mph (64 km/h) across the Tacoma Narrows strait when "Galloping Gertie" began to bounce. The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, which connected Tacoma, Washington, with the Kitsap ...
It’s the 77th anniversary of the infamous Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse. Perhaps as incredible as the collapse itself is that it was captured on film by Barney Elliott, the owner of a Tacoma camera ...
When the two-lane Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened on July 1, 1940, it was hailed as a “triumph of structural engineering.” Locals quickly gave it another name—Galloping Gertie—after noticing how the ...
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