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Originally Posted by mdiederi
Here's another interesting photo of the Gerald Desmond, not sure what's going on with that plane in the water. Don't know the date, but the old-style cargo crane suggests it was a few decades ago.
http://www.worldaffairsboard.com/wor...te-bridge.html
And another of the pontoon bridge. There are still working oil wells in that area.
http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/cdm/si...d/90456/rec/24
I've been driving across the Gerald Desmond twice a week lately and posted a photo of the construction for the new bridge in the Los Angeles Metro Development thread. So far they are just drilling holes in the ground still and will probably take another four or five years to complete. |
Post 14915 of 5/31/13 by mdiederi. The plane is Howard Huges's "Spruce Goose" probably getting ready to lift on the barge for the trip to Oregon. The crain "TD 171" is one of four 200 ton floating crains taken from Germany after WW II and was stationed at the Navy base Long Beach. After the closing of the base it was sold to the Panama Canal as I saw it two years ago on a cruise.
Paul C. Koehler