According to my Grandmother...people came from MILES around to cross the bridge....just to see the car in front of them disappear and reappear with the undulation.

Hard to believe people stayed on the bridge, even with their children, while the thing was lurching and undulating like that! I would have been running for the other side, LOL!

@RoyceLerwick

3 жыл бұрын

@@williamwagener And that will definitely fix the bridge problem in the Pacific Northwest.

Wow people just drove and walked over that thing swaying like that is nuts to me. No way I would cross it! It does not surprise me it only lasted for 4 months. Geesh! I have to say the film for 1940 is very good...maybe an 8mm camera perhaps? It even shows it in color at one point unless that was touched up later.

@SimpleAviation55

Жыл бұрын

The color was original in the video, as far as my nerdiness for this bridge goes.

@gooberclown

Жыл бұрын

They should have issued parachutes at the toll booths to pedestrians, just in case they needed one! 😳

This is when you officially fire your “engineer.”

@Engineer9736

2 жыл бұрын

And get a new one who still has to learn about this, while the just fired one just learnt it?

@blackholeentry3489

2 жыл бұрын

No need to fire him as he'd be too embarrassed to return for his final paycheck. I was born in Portland, grew up near there and recall my folks talking about this when I was young, as it happened not too long after I was born.

@SimpleAviation55

Жыл бұрын

Leon mosieff, the lead architect died 2 years after the collapse from a heart attack.

Fun fact: Part of this footage was used in an animation production logo, known as Double Hemm

During the four months of its life, when noticing that the bridge oscillated, the designers should quickly have introduced triangular cables stayed from the towers to the main deck at an angle and not vertical. They had ample time to do it in four months and that bridge would be still standing now. Just introduce a triangle in any structure , as a triangle is one which does not change its shape. I often see bridges built with approximates squares or parallelograms and those four beam units change their shape along their diagonal, Stiffen their diagonals and they would each incorporate two triangles and they will then never change shape. Such a simple idea which seemed to remain dormant in the designers' brains.

@SmokeyBCN

5 жыл бұрын

I think it is not that simple though. In a cable-stayed bridge the cables transfer the load of the bridge to the towers and then vertically down to the ground, and the bridge deck is very stiff as a result, and requires thickness to withstand the pull. In a suspension bridge, the cables transfer the load upwards and outwards to the cable anchor points at either end, allowing for a thinner bridge deck and less load on the towers. If cable stays were to be introduced to the tacoma narrows, I doubt that the very slender bridge deck would have withstood the horizontal load, or that the towers would have withstood bearing the whole span. Also, the deck's flexibility (important in all suspension bridges, but obviously wildly out of control here) would have been compromised by the cable stays. Obviously we have plenty of examples of combining suspension cables and cable stays (like the Brooklyn Bridge), but these were designed from the outset as such.

@lqhh4l

4 жыл бұрын

I read four words of the other comment, and some of the comment I am replying to, and I tell you, when I got four words in, my brain started hurting-.

I always hated crossing that bridge because of Galloping Gertie when I was younger and living in the Port Orchard area

@tripaces9929

4 жыл бұрын

What are you 70 something god damn!

@aprilbourie9419

4 жыл бұрын

@@tripaces9929 REEEEEEEeEEEEEEEEEEeeEEEEeEEeeeeEeEEEEeeEEeE

We lived in Portland at the time and I still remember my folks talking about quite a bit prior to its eventual collapse.

Perfect music!

@mikereiss4216

5 жыл бұрын

Yeah the music is really cool. Nice soundtrackish ambient music.

I never knew this bridge opened on my birthday, but many years before I was born 😦

@christiansilvio5402

5 жыл бұрын

RajaReign78 omg me to

@christiansilvio5402

5 жыл бұрын

I feel cursed

Kinda like a " hold my beer n watch this" scenario.

Wonder why the guy left his car on the bridge with his dog inside rather than just drive off the thing. 🤔

@mirozen_

4 жыл бұрын

"The three legged dog in question was a black Cocker Spaniel left in the back seat of the lone car abandoned on the galloping bridge. The dog was owned by reporter Leonard Coatsworth, though his wife stated in an interview that it was her dog. (No doubt it went over really well when he told her he’d left the dog in the car when he abandoned it on the doomed bridge!) On November 7, 1940, Coatsworth was attempting to drive across the four month old Tacoma Narrows bridge that at the time was the third longest suspension bridge in the world (today the 33rd longest). He was forced to abandon his car about 450 feet from the East Tower and a total of 1,895 feet from the Toll Plaza because of the extreme motion caused by a wind storm that had winds as high as 42 mph (69 km/h). Three people attempted to save the dog, Coatsworth himself (no doubt thinking of the lashing he’d get when he got home and told his wife he’d abandoned her dog), a friend of his, Howard Clifford, and finally a man on the scene, University of Washington Engineering Professor F.B. Farquharson, who had arrived to observe the bridge’s motion. In all cases, they were unsuccessful. However, in the the case of the brave professor, he actually managed to get to the car and even to get near the dog. But, as you might imagine, Tubby was in no state to let some random person pick him up and remove him from the car. As such, when the Professor opened the car door and attempted to grab the dog, Tubby snapped at him, managing to bite the index finger of the hand that was trying to save him. Unable to secure the dog without bodily harm, Farquaharson left the car and the dog, returning to safety. None too soon either as a few minutes after Farquharson returned from his dangerous walk to save the dog, the bridge collapsed, sending the car and Tubby to a 200 ft fall into the Tacoma Narrows, which at that location had a depth of about 125 ft. " This text is from this link: www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2012/10/the-only-victim-of-the-tacoma-narrows-bridge-collapse-was-a-three-legged-dog/ They actually reused the two towers when they rebuilt the bridge. The design improvements worked great, and the bridge no longer "gallops". :-) I've driven over it many many times!

It collapsed two times, possibly three 6:16 first collapse, only 2/4 of center span falls 6:57 9/10 of center span collapses B&W Footage after the collapse shows the few remaining section of the span from the time between the second and this possible third are completely missing. It could be from either the angle, though it’s highly unlikely because the section had become very small and stable.

Good job, film guys👍. I had not to dared to stay on the bridge and film, when it sway violently.

Those lampposts must have had the wildest ride ever recorded in lamppost history. They must be famous in lamppost society. I can see how people might have enjoyed the vertical wave motion when Gertie was Galloping, I probably would have too and (at the time) And might have wanted to drive over, just for the experience. But when I saw the twisting movement, I felt a bit nauseous and I'm not even there.I It must have been quite a sight watching the reporter making a run for it... I wonder if the earth literally went so fast away from him that it left his feet for a moment of suspension. It looks like it might have been going fast enough, but perhaps he was long gone before then.

Rip lamp post 1940 1940

Everyone’s like “poor dog!” But when a man tried to get it out it bit him and wouldn’t let him pick it up.

@JeantheSecond

3 жыл бұрын

That reporter should have never driven the car on the bridge, particularly with an helpless passenger.

@AmelieW.

3 жыл бұрын

Jean the Second Yeah, that too. The guy that drove on the bridge is still is a jerk lol

Pretty cool how much footage of this there is. Must have been a huge embarrassment for the designers but at least no one died. 🤷‍♂️

@horsepowermultimedia

3 жыл бұрын

A dog died.

@KevinStudios7

2 жыл бұрын

@@horsepowermultimedia he meant a human.

due this music is creepy as hell

Lamp post broke to but they are not there on opening day but only on month 3 and 4

If the bridge was still here today I AM NOT CROSSING THAT BRIDGE

@DarlinKat

4 жыл бұрын

Michelle Mangialardi it is but it’s built entirely from steel and is very very stable people cross the narrows bridge everyday

The guy went back to get his dog out of his car.

@KevinStudios7

2 жыл бұрын

Yup. We never knew that.

It's soooooooo sad that a doggie died from the collapse of this bridge 😞

@Mellun-P

6 жыл бұрын

Yeah of course, because it 100% doesn't matter about the other 100's of people who died because of this. Only the dog matters. \(-.-)/

@RajaReign78

6 жыл бұрын

Mellun no human died from this bridge collapse 🙄

@MrHandsome-gu8ss

5 жыл бұрын

Fuck the owners? Another dare man called Bert farquharson tried to save the dog but he got bitten and the dog didn’t want to come.

@michellem2854

5 жыл бұрын

thx for the talk

@polyblank6433

5 жыл бұрын

Mellun I don’t care about humans. Only other animals UwU

The pillars in this bridge are the same pillars the bridge we have now

How does concrete and steel become so flexible?

Oh hell no

This is creepy

That's some scary ass shit!

That bridge is scary

You can see it appear again at time stamp 1:46-1:47.

Damn karman vortex streets!

Does anyone else notice what falls off from underneath the bridge at 2:05-2:06? Let me know what your comments are.

Rip dog

The Purdy bridge is still here and I live in gig Harbor area

Is any of the bridge still down there in the water?

@candysmith8724

4 жыл бұрын

Yes, I saw somewhere that it's now a nation landmark reef in Puget Sound.

@skepep8300

4 жыл бұрын

The car with the dog inside is still underwater and well

@mirozen_

4 жыл бұрын

It's an interesting scuba diving spot, though most of the remains are pretty deep, and you have a fairly short dive window before the current really kicks in.

340 Did you guys see a turck

whete i can watch original sound clips of bridge

that poor dam dog

Poor dog 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭

@mikereiss4216

5 жыл бұрын

Not mentioned in the video but yeah the dog was the only casualty.

@michellem2854

5 жыл бұрын

i know

WHAT THE HECK WHY DID THE TOLL GUYS LET A TRUCK ON THE BRIDGE

@MrHandsome-gu8ss

5 жыл бұрын

It wasn’t toll guys, I think.

@michellem2854

5 жыл бұрын

about the truck

@skepep8300

4 жыл бұрын

Perhaps the truck was already there when the bridge started to turn into Play-Doh

@michellem2854

3 жыл бұрын

Also that truck is from a hardewere store

Que es esto ?

Oh hell no fuck that😖

2018?

@mikereiss4216

5 жыл бұрын

2018 here also. The video and incident are from 1940 though.

@halpmeamcringe1538

3 жыл бұрын

Sorry but it’s 2020’s time to shine

@KevinStudios7

2 жыл бұрын

@@halpmeamcringe1538 nah. 2021 is.

@halpmeamcringe1538

2 жыл бұрын

@@KevinStudios7 yup

@TLFG2009

6 ай бұрын

2023?

Who else here bc ifunny

@akitawild1904

6 жыл бұрын

Supreme Meme King Meee

@chimericmacandcheese

6 жыл бұрын

me

@lucacapperucci8711

6 жыл бұрын

Sammeeee

This is my 9/11

Omg the bridge looks like it’s on drugs in its head but it’s actually wiggling ( that’s what she said ) also I don’t know if the dog died or not because I didn’t see the dog I the man’s arms I only saw a dog head in that car I actually and genuinely don’t know if the man had his dog in his arms either you guys tell me in replies I learned about this at school and to be honest nobody saved the dog:c anyway I don’t want likes please dislike if this was bad information or like if this is good information I’m not asking for likes again I just wanna see if you guys hate or like my info.

@Jay-vr9ir

4 жыл бұрын

The dog was too scared so it was left in the car.I wonder if any remains of the car are still down there?

@skepep8300

4 жыл бұрын

The dog was the only casualty of the bridge collapse. Neither the car or the dog's body were recovered

@SimpleAviation55

Жыл бұрын

@@Jay-vr9ir the car is either rusted away or buried in sand

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A millenial would drive across that swaying bridge at high speeds.