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.

Bridges Now and Then posted
Milwaukee, Wisconsin's Daniel Hoan Bridge, seen during construction in the early 1970s. (OnMilwaukee)