Saturday, September 18, 2021

Cherry+Main Street Bridges over Maumee River in Toledo, OH

1884: (Bridge Hunter)
1914: (Bridge Hunter; Historic BridgesSatellite) Martin Luther King Jr. Bridge

1884

BridgeHunter-1884
[The Toledo & Ohio Central freight terminal is in the foreground.]

Circa 1907 BridgeHunter-1884

Association for Great Lakes Maritime History posted
An image from a dry plate negative of the steamer Greyhound passing through the Cherry Street Bridge in Toledo, Ohio, circa 1900-1910 (Image Source: Library of Congress – Detroit Publishing Co. Collection). Based on the history of the vessel, the photograph is circa 1902-1910.
[The description coninutes with a history of the steamer.]
Judy Barnes-DePeal shared

East Toledo Historical Society posted
Freighter William A Reiss attempting to maneuver straight into the channel and the middle of the Cherry St. bridge opening. The boat was loaded with coal from the T&OC docks (where the Dock's Are today) and needed help from 2 tugs to straighten it's self out.

The steamer Yuma allided with a span in 1908 and destroyed that span. That is why the 1914 bridge was built. 
BridgeHunter-1884 has several more images of the allision.

Five of the spans from the 1884 bridge were used to build the 1909-1957 Ash-Consaul Bridge.
1938 Toledo Quadrangle @ 1:62,500

1914

Street View

Street View, max zoom
 
Bridges Now and Then
Pedestrians cross Toledo, Ohio's, Cherry Street Bridge, now the Martin Luther King, Jr. Bridge, on opening day, March 27, 1913. (Toledo-Lucas County Public Library)

David Huskins posted four postcard images. But I'm not comfortable with the Terms of Use. The group is public, so hopefully clicking the "posted" link works for you.

0:37 video @ 0:18
Federal Oshima being expertly guided on the Maumee!
 
1 of 3 photos and a video posted by Maggie Olk
Federal Oshima being guided on the Maumee!!!

East Toledo Historical Society posted
The construction of the third Cherry St. bridge 1914. the bridge was built in side by side sections, one side at a time in order to better maintain traffic.
[Note the falsework under the concrete arches.]

Historic Bridges explains that the bridge was built with a Scherzer designed rolling span. But a major rehabilitation in 2002 replaced that span. It appears that the new span is a trunnion bridge. Thanks to the popularity of postcards at the interesting change of century, we have images of the rolling spans. (Postcards were the "selfies" of their day.) In fact, we have a comparison of colorized images. As usual, the clouds confirm that these were colorized by different artists. 
BridgeHunter-1914

The truss bridge in the background is the best view I have seen of the Pennsy Bridge.
Hope Moore Flickr via BridgeHunter-1914, Public Domain
Cherry Street Bridge Showing Draw and Freighter Going Through, Toledo, Ohio (1936)

 Description on card: Cherry Street Bridge Showing Draw and Freighter Going Through, Toledo, Ohio
 Publisher: Hirsch News Agency, Toledo, Ohio / Tichnor
Postmark: December 30, 1936 (Toledo, Ohio)

Jonathan Konopka posted
This is the MLK Memorial Bridge in Toledo, Ohio. It is a double-leaf bascule bridge that was built in 1914 and carries Cherry Street across the Maumee River.
 
1 of 3 photos posted by Maggie Olk
Last Friday [Dec 16, 2022]. Taken from 13th floor of the fifth-third building. Toledo.

Meteorologist Ross Ellet posted
Check this out! While we are all trying to stay in our lanes on the road, the massive 704 foot long cargo ship, H. Lee White, is threading the needle on staying away from the ice on the Maumee River as it departs downtown Toledo. This was around 7:30am this [Jan 24, 2022] morning.
Susan Wenner shared

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