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re: Vintage 15 minute video showing construction of the Atchafalaya Basin Bridge.

Posted on 3/1/19 at 2:28 pm to
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
Ponchatoula
Member since Aug 2004
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Posted on 3/1/19 at 2:28 pm to
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but was an engineering feat at the time.


How exactly do you figure this?
Posted by Ponchy Tiger
Ponchatoula
Member since Aug 2004
49696 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 2:35 pm to
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Where were the concrete fabrications done?


pre stress concrete in mandeville.
Posted by TigerCoon
Member since Nov 2005
22476 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 2:54 pm to
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The day you walked into homeroom and they had a film projector set up was always a good day.


Even a film strip was a pretty good day.
Posted by Tchefuncte Tiger
Bat'n Rudge
Member since Oct 2004
63429 posts
Posted on 3/1/19 at 3:00 pm to
I remember taking that bridge before it was officially opened to go to my uncle's duck camp in early '73. It was quite a trip.
Posted by Parmen
Member since Apr 2016
18317 posts
Posted on 3/2/19 at 12:01 am to
Did it have cops running radar on it when it was brand new?
Posted by saintsfan1977
Arkansas, from Cajun country
Member since Jun 2010
10355 posts
Posted on 3/2/19 at 6:55 am to
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Did it have cops running radar on it when it was brand new?

Probably not because the speed limit was 70.
Posted by whatshisface
Westside
Member since Jun 2012
277 posts
Posted on 3/2/19 at 7:33 am to
great video, let’s hear more about how this rampant laziness and embezzlement are delaying all these projects. To call everyone in construction lazy, you must have been a bad arse when you were onsite.
This post was edited on 3/2/19 at 7:50 am
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