Found this image on the Interweb the other day...
It was quite a nostalgic pic...
The view is from the old Seven Mile Bridge looking toward Little Duck Key, with Money Key off to the left. You can still see parts of the old bridge when you drive over the new 7-Mile Bridge.
(Or watch the end of 'True Lies' when Arnold snatches Jaime Lee Curtis out of the sunroof of the limo- that was filmed on the old bridge.)
Two things to note-
First, look carefully at the guard rails... They are old railroad rails welded to more upright rails.
A very unforgiving assembly and strangely effective as a solution to keep vehicles from going over the side.
The other thing is the width of the road-
At one time all the bridges down there were that width- just barely wide enough for two cars to go past each other.
If two semis met on the bridge they usually locked mirrors with a spectacular smash and shower of broken mirror glass all over the place.
Not sure what the picture was advertising - maybe hyping car audio?
I did a Google Image Search but didn't find a genesis of the pic...
I did find some interesting "caption this photo" entries...
From the outfits the girls are wearing it seems like some they might have been implying there was a bridge Hawaii and the Mainland...
TBG - - [Exit - Pursued by a sea turtle]
On a bus in Mexico, about 3:00 in the morning on a narrow road. I'm smoking with the driver, a bus in oncoming, there's a crash, and both bus's rear view mirrors are sheared off, along with an exchange of paint. Next stop, the driver gets out, pulls out a spare mirror, and asks if I have a wrench. Of course I do. And this never happened.
ReplyDeleteYep, same width as the old bridge at Vicksburg.
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