Monday, October 16, 2023

1959 US-27 Olgiati Memorial Bridge over Tennessee River in Chattanooga, TN

(Bridge Hunter broke Apr 22, 2023; Satellite)

Street View, Oct 2016

I normally don't bother with a UCEB (Ugly Concrete Eyesore Bridges), but I normally don't come across a construction photo.
Bridge Now and Then posted
An aerial view of the construction of the Olgiati Bridge across the Tennessee River at Chattanooga, c. 1959. (ChattanoogaHistory)

Bneu2013 at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Widening in progress of the Olgiati Bridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee

I came across the same text in three different sources. So I took a look at Wikipedia. Sure enough, they copied it from there. I didn't see any acknowledgement, but I wasn't looking for it at the time.
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A fourth source that copied from Wikipedia. But this time I looked for an acknowledgement and found it, including the CC BY-SA license.
"The P. R. Olgiati Bridge, nicknamed the "Ol' Johnny", is a steel girder bridge across the Tennessee River in Chattanooga, Tennessee completed in 1959. It is named for former mayor and long time political boss of Chattanooga, P.R. Olgiati. Chattanooga was a growing city during the 1950s. To expand the city and to allow more ways to cross the Tennessee River, the P. R. Olgiati Bridge was one of multiple bridges built. The route carries US 27 and SR 27 across the Tennessee river."






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