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Posts tagged bridges.
Ravenel Bridge
“Charleston has a landscape that encourages intimacy and partisanship. I have heard it said that an inoculation to the sights and smells of the Carolina lowcountry is an almost irreversible antidote to the charms of other landscapes, other alien geographies. You can be moved profoundly by other vistas, by other oceans, by soaring mountain ranges, but you can never be seduced. You can even forsake the lowcountry, renounce it for other climates, but you can never completely escape the sensuous, semitropical pull of Charleston and her marshes.”
—Pat Conroy
(Source: facebook.com)
Three bridges: the John P. Grace Memorial, the Silas M. Pearman, and the Arthur Ravenel, Jr.
(Source: notablephotos.com)
Image from Live 5 News WCSC Charleston, SC. 35th Annual Bridge Run 3/31/12. Wowzer! Beautiful! I think I see me…
Arthur Ravenel, Jr. Bridge
The John P. Grace and the Silas M. Pearman Bridges
On April 29, 1966, the Silas M. Pearman Bridge was opened to traffic. To honor the style of the original bridge, the Grace, it featured a cantilevered truss design. With the opening of this three lane “new” bridge, right along-side the Grace, Charleston and Mount Pleasant had 5 lanes combined to travel between the two growing cities. After 76 years and 39 years respectively, of transporting visitors and natives over the Cooper River, the Grace and the “New” Pearman were retired by a grateful city and replaced by a bridge for the 21st century, the Arthur Ravenel, Jr.
(Source: notablephotos.com)
Ever Glamour Entering The Cooper River
Art by West Fraser
(Featuring the old Cooper River Bridge, the John P. Grace Memorial Bridge.)
(Source: westfraserstudio.com)
The Battery from the air (with a view of the Arthur Ravenel Bridge and the edge of Mount Pleasant)
Spirit of South Carolina, homeport Charleston
(Source: facebook.com, via intracoastal-wanderings)
