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Thursday Postcard Hunt – BRIDGES – Iron/Rail

… is this week’s theme for Thursday Postcard Hunt.

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd (1914–1924) and later Leningrad (1924–1991; see below), is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow. Port city on the Baltic Sea. It was the imperial capital for 2 centuries, having been founded in 1703 by Peter the Great.

Postcard from Canada

Vancouver. On July 1, 1932, the City of Vancouver opened the Burrard Street Bridge. The neighborhoods of Kitsilano were connected to Downtown Vancouver.
The beautiful art deco, steel truss bridge had hardly been opened when thousands of walkers and hundreds of cars hurried to cross the bridge for the first time. Designed by George Lister Thornton Sharpe and engineered by John R Grant, the bridge crossing Vancouver’s “False Creek” was built in under three years at a cost of about three million dollars. Two of the architectural pieces that stand out on the main superstructures are the busts of Captain George Vancouver on the one side and Sir Harry Burrard Neale on the other.  The beautiful central piers that hold the busts are connected with an overhead gallery crossing the bridge width at each end of the steel trusses. 

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  3. The first one is definitely the place to watch a sunset. I never knew Vancouver was named after an actual person and I live in a town that has streets named after historic British naval sailors. Still better to have given a name to a city than a street.

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  4. Oh! A drawbridge! I haven’t seen one open in decades. I drove across one, plus a swing bridge, in Portland, OR not long ago, but they didn’t need to open. I don’t like driving on bridges!

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