Navy better access to its station on the island.

Pontoon bridge long beach. East end of Terminal Island looking east to Long Beach. The Long Beach California Pontoon Bridge closed in 1969 replaced by the Gerald Desmond Bridge. When autocomplete results are available use up and down arrows to review and enter to select.

The pontoon bridge was a traffic bottleneck until it was replaced by the Gerald Desmond Bridge in late 1968. Roman Pontoon Bridge Dacia At its simplest form a pontoon bridge is a collection of shallow draft boats lashed together across a river or canal with some form of track or deck lashed to the top. See this object in the California State Universities Japanese American Digitization project site.

Touch device users explore by touch or with swipe gestures. 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. Aerial photograph number 6858 of the pontoon bridge.

Entire original image 877KB A nice view of Terminal Island coming down the Desmond Bridge. It wasnt replaced until 1968 when the 1053- foot-long Gerald Desmond Bridge was finished. Pontoon bridge at E.

In the mid-1960s construction began on the replacement of the pontoon bridge the Gerald Desmond Bridge. The bridge is part of State Route 47 which is also known as the Seaside Freeway. One of the more unusual features of the pontoon bridge was its shape.

Hobart Bridge a long pontoon bridge built 1943 in Hobart was only replaced after 21 years. The pontoon bridge is probably the oldest form of military bridging equipment back to the original Bridge of Boats I looked at the beginning of the series. The Terminal IslandPort of Los Angeles Collection documents the neighborhoods businesses and landscapes on Terminal Island Catalina Island San Pedro and.