Hoan Bridge: I-794 over Kinnickinnic River in Milwaukee, WI

(Bridge Hunter, Satellite (83 photos))

Street View (Bing's Street View shows the same construction netting)

When I saw the steel arch, I assumed that this was a replacement bridge. But Bridge Hunter indicates it was built in 1974. This strikes me as a very innovative design for the 1970s.

This is one of five photos posted by Steve Rod concerning the boat Fearless arriving to get grain

John Mueller commented on a post:
Milwaukee did have a bridge to nowhere fir a while. The Hoan Bridge sat unused for various beauracratic reasons, and the Blues Brothers even shot a scene where the Illinois Nazis go off the end of said bridge. https://shepherdexpress.com/.../bridge-nowhere-brief.../...

Julie Waller Fletcher posted
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Dennis DeBruler: That is the best photo of the Hoan Bridge that I have seen so far.

But then I saw this photo:

Kathy Kay posted
Welcome to Milwaukee, Mark W Barker 5.21.23

Kevin Stern posted, cropped
ALPENA steaming out into Lake Michigan Thu Eve from Milwaukee & heading to Muskegon 7/21/22.

1 of 7 photos posted by Aaron Erickson
Couple nice shots of Alpena arriving in Milwaukee 09/05/2022. She's been very busy this year!
Tim Mousseau: Anyone know how many boats the cement plant is running now? Use to be Huron Portland Cement but don’t know the current name.
Brian Shorkey: Tim Mousseau 1 boat the Alpena. 2 tug and barges.
John Thompson: Tim Mousseau it’s LaFarge now. Don’t know how many they’re running. Moving to tug, barge systems. Less expensive to run, much smaller crew required.
[Both LaFarge and St. Marys Cement have facilities on Jones Island.]

Alec Jacobson posted
Viking Octantis backing into Port Milwaukee on May 4, 2023.
Roger LeLievre shared
Timothy Johnson: I just wish the dock where they come in wasn't so run down and industrial.

 

Tim Keefe posted
The classic Wilfred Sykes passes under Milwaukee's iconic Hoan Bridge this afternoon, 8/26/24, after receiving repairs. This is a shot I had long dreamed of getting but had dismissed as impossible; the boat that got me into boats 25 years ago in the the city that is my "home port" of nearly 20 years, but for only a week longer.

Billy Willman provided two photos in the comments on Tim's post.

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Bridges Now and Then posted
Building Milwaukee's Hoan Bridge, December 1, 1972. (On Milwaukee)
Theron Stratton: some really serious barge crane there
Michael Schindler: That could be John F Beasley Erection Company’s 250 ton stiff leg derrick. Dave Porter: Michael Schindler that is a biggun. Michael Schindler: Dave Porter I helped set six 200 ton 200’ long and 10’ deep girders on a bridge crossing the Mississippi River from Dubuque Iowa into Wisconsin with that big derrick. These girders stretched across the 600’ main span over the barge channel. Great job. Michael Schindler: No. It was a 200 ton derrick with a 250 boom and a 75’ jib. The middle load line half way up the jib was for pulling the spuds.