38 - Cedar Street Bridge
The Cedar Street Bridge (which is not connected to a street named Cedar anymore).
Construction began in 1929, and was it known as the “longest bridge in the world” because the money ran out and the construction never seemed to end. The State of Illinois finally stepped in to help and it was completed in 1933.
A note to Angie- I had a total Soprannos moment hanging out down there…
April 19th, 2006 at 11:38 am
Good grief. Where are you hanging out?
I think everyone in high school got busted for hanging out under bridges.
April 19th, 2006 at 12:46 pm
What a fun little game - though you need to get some tougher ones..
this is under the Cedar Street Bridge…..can’t think of a real name for it if it does have one.
Just curious, do you just drive around and take these pictures?
April 19th, 2006 at 4:24 pm
Except for the Shade-Lohman and a few postcards, I’ve taken all the pictures. I drive around town alot anyway, so it’s not too terribly difficult to snap some pictures. It’s alot easier now that I know how to crop with photoshop (I know it’s not hard, but I never had a good reason to learn).
Easy or hard is all perspective. I don’t want to take this too seriously, although I do find it fun, mainly I just found an excuse to put up photos of Peoria, dig into history, and sometimes start discussions from a picture. Some are hard, some are easy, some are just pretty pictures.
It started with a Google-Earth picture of Kellogg Golf Course, which I put up on my PeoriaIllinoisan site and asked if anyone could identify it. I got such a kick out of it, I started another blog. My PhotoBlog, if you will.
FYI- to keep it interesting, I try to update every day or two. If anyone has any suggestions, let me know, or take your own photos and email them to me (peoriaillinoisan@yahoo.com)
January 21st, 2007 at 9:22 am
The Cedar St. bridge took so long because during the war, they halted production on the bridge, because they needed all available steel to build military vehicles.