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Galloping Gertie Turns 75

caption: A fragment of the collapsed bridge, in the Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
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A fragment of the collapsed bridge, in the Washington State History Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
Wikipedia Photo/Joe Mabel (CC BY SA)/http://bit.ly/1NUPhz7

David Hyde speaks with journalist and local historian Feliks Banel about the Tacoma Narrows bridge collapse on Nov. 7, 1940.

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