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Pontoon bridge long beach california. Terminal Island California OBJECT GENRE. Feb 26 2016 - Pontoon Bridge connecting Terminal Island. Many longtime Long Beach residents can tell stories about crossing the peculiar span which literally floated on the mouth of the LA.

The roughly 15-mile span named after a former city attorney and councilman of the City of Long Beach was completed in 1968. Feb 26 2016 - Pontoon Bridge connecting Terminal Island. The pontoon bridge was a traffic bottleneck until it was replaced by the Gerald Desmond Bridge in late 1968.

Built by the Navy. The bridge is part of State Route 47 which is also known as the Seaside Freeway. The problem was the bridge was separated for even the smallest of.

Every sailor who served in Long Beach California was familiar with the pontoon bridge which linked the city to Terminal Island where the Navy base and shipyard were located. The pontoon bridge was an engineering marvel of floating sections which an operator could separate in order to allow boat traffic to pass through. Touch device users explore by touch or with swipe gestures.

Explore Travel. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select. The stress caused by the higher number of cars and trucks that have come to use it as a result of the ports growing importance to the US.

Its namesake was a prominent Long Beach civic leader who served as a Long Beach city councilman and also as the city attorney. The first bridge we encounter is the Gerald Desmond Bridge built in 1968 to replace the previous pontoon bridge and spanning 5134. This section of Ocean Blvd was previously part of CA 7.