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(Update: the information concerning Zimgibil's grave has been moved to these notes.
Several more of my photos and a video are here.)
It is easy to find a place to park because Ewing is a four lane road that has to use a two lane bridge. But I didn't get my act together in time to take a video of it going down. By the time I got out on the bridge, the three sailboats for which it was raised were north of CN/EJ&E Bridge. But later I did get a video of another batch of boats leaving the river. Unfortunately, that video taught me about wind noise.
"Built 1914; rehabilitated 1992 and 2013" [BridgeHunter]
"This bridge was one of the first city-designed bascule bridges to use a counterweight composed mostly of concrete rather than cast and pig iron as had been used in earlier bridges....The bridge operation was achieved by two 75 h.p. electric motors. When completed, this bridge, with a 200 foot clear span, had the longest clear span of any bascule bridge built by the city at that time. At that time, this bridge was the main route to Chicago from eastern states, which made this a very important bridge. Given this importance, it is unsuprising that a temporary bridge was in place to serve traffic during the construction of this bridge. The temporary bridge was actually the superstructure of the former bridge at this location, which was simply moved onto a temporary substructure placed a short distance north of the bridge. This previous bridge was a hand-turned iron swing bridge, constructed at an unknown date, and was 200 feet long and 34 feet wide." [HistoricBridges]
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| Rod Sellers posted Where am I? George Dosen Don’t remember those power line towers. Bob Lalich George Dosen - the transmission line towers seen in the photo were replaced by the currently standing towers in the late 1960s. |
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| Rod commented on his post South Chicago Ewing trolley crossing 92nd Street Bridge view east toward the East Side. Youngstown Steel partially visible at left. Attached photo was taken from the other side of the river and shows trolleys waiting for boat to pass. 1947 |
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| Rod Sellers posted Answer to Apr 30 "Where are we?" 92nd Street Bridge, Ewing Avenue, Trolleys, June 28, 1947 Pretty much 4 possible answers. Only confusion is that sometimes this bridge is called the Ewing Avenue Bridge and sometimes the 92nd Street Bridge. All Southeast Siders have their own memories of bridges, probably in connection with being late to engagements or having to take circuitous detours to avoid an open bridge. On the Southeast Side the word bridge is often a verb as in “I’ve been bridged." |
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| 1 of 4 photos posted by Stephen Sostaric Alpena made a sunny afternoon arrival in Chicago today - April 21, 2023. |
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| Tom Shepherd posted
Here is an excellent aerial shot of the Calumet River as it enters from Lake Michigan at roughly 92nd Street.
On the right side of the river (south side) is what is now the Illinois International Port District's Iroquois Landing facility.
On the left are the remains of where US Steel (USX) once was.
Notice the breakwater out in the lake. See the barges being towed by a tugboat, which just came through the opened-up 92nd & Ewing Ave. bridge?
This photo (date unknown, maybe around 2000?) was before the extension of South Shore Drive through the USX / Lakeside Development property.
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| Rod Sellers posted 92nd St Bridge view west toward South Chicago. Bridge was a hand operated swing bridge replaced in 1914 with a trunnion bascule bridge. [A different exposure of this photo] |
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| Rod Sellers posted 92nd St Bridge (also called the Ewing Avenue Bridge) c1912 Bridge was a hand operated swing bridge replaced in 1914 with a trunnion bascule bridge. In 1839 this was the site of a floating toll bridge. Rod Sellers: Another question - is this view looking toward Lake Michigan or looking up the Calumet River? Jim Harter: Looking up the rivetr. |
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| Rod Sellers commented on his post Plaque on 92nd Street Bridge. |
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| Bob Lalich commented on Rod's question about the direction of the view The CFD had a station on the east bank of the river. The view would be looking toward Lake Michigan. |
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| Rod Sellers posted 92nd Street Bridge. [The 1914 bridge mentioned above.] |
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| Michael Mora posted 92nd & Ewing bridge https://thetrolleydodger.com/ |
Christy Matczak Boyle posted eight photos with the comment:
January 1981. My mom was allowed under the 92nd Street bridge to photograph some work being done. She was soooo happy!Christy Matczak Boyle They warned her about climbing under and she said “don’t worry, I can swim”
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safe_image for Lou Gerard FlickrShips Passing-3As the Manistee goes through 92nd St. the G tugs Massachusetts and Florida move in to take the Algowood out to Calumet Harbor so they could bring in the Atlantic Huron due to tight clearances. I had to go to a lunch appt. so couldn't stick around for the Huron. |
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| Nick Hart posted With a load of stone for Ozinga, Interlake's Herbert C. Jackson is seen making way through 92nd/Ewing on the Calumet River. July 9th, 2022 |
Sims Metal Management also expanded into crushing and recycling diesel motor buses, including those formerly of the Chicago Transit Authority. An occasional blog respondent here, William Shapotkin, would respond this is what those vehicles deserved. ;=)}
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