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Huntington East End Bridge opened to traffic in August of 1985, after more than 20 years of planning and designing and nearly 10 years of construction efforts. The bridge is one mile long (including approaches) and cost over $38 million dollars. The bridge was designed by Arvid Grant and Associated of Olympia, Washington. It was built utilizing a distinctive asymmetrical cable-stayed girder design. The bridge spans the Ohio River and links Huntington's 31st Street with Ohio Routes 7 in Proctorville. Huntington's East End Bridge is only the third of its kind in the United States. The bridge's segments were placed together piece by piece. The segments, which weighed roughly 200 tons, were hoisted by crane and joined to a 360 foot, "A" shaped concrete tower already in the river. The design, stringing a bridge up by cable, was first used in Europe in the 1950's using steel. Then in the 1970's they began using concrete for these cable-stayed bridges. Huntington's East End Bridge is the second concrete, cable-stayed bridge. |
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My heart is full of memories of home. Growing up in the 50's in Huntington was the best of times. The busy downtown shopping...Gallagher's Drug Store...where the teens would gather. The fantasy windows at Anderson's and Bradshaw's Dept. Stores at Christmas. Remember Saturday's at the Keith-Albee, Tipton, Palace, and Orpheum Theatres? Ward's Donuts, Silver's Five and Dime, Stewart's and Midway hotdogs, and Wiggin's Drive-In...couldn't be beat! Ritter Park, riding my sled down Gobbler's Knob in winter, picnics in summer, and the Rose Garden. Cammack Elementary and Jr. High, and Huntington High in the annual parade with it's high stepping majorettes! Roller skating on Friday nights with your friends. And last, but not least, going swimming at Dreamland...with the handsome tanned lifeguards, the many high diving showoffs embarrassed by their belly flops, and the green acres filled with beach towels, sunlotion, portable radios blaring out the Platters, and the Coasters top hits, and most important are the sun-burned friends with which we enjoyed it all. Yes, I remember it well.  ~Wanda (Then)~
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Wanda, I want to say thank you for sharing that story about Huntington with me. Brings back a lot of good memories. I also have some wonderful memories of growing up in Huntington. I was born and raised on the west end of Huntington. Growing up in Huntington in the 70's and 80's was so great. I went to school Jefferson Elementary, and West Jr. High School, we moved before I got into high school. As a kid, my sister, some friends, and me would ride the bus uptown to Keith-Albee. We also went to the new Huntington library and looked at books. We always took enough money along to eat at the dime store. We always went to the Olympic Pool, and like you, we went to ride sleds and inner tubes at Gobbler's Knob. Boy wasn?t that just the greatest days of our lives growing up??
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Hi Wanda,
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