During Demolition, One Last View from the Old Bay Bridge | KQED News
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- čas přidán 18. 06. 2014
- In the shadow of the glistening, problem-wracked new Bay Bridge, the original eastern span is coming down piece by piece.
A few weeks ago, equipped with standard-issue hard hat, bright orange safety vest, plastic goggles and borrowed work boots, I venture onto the live demolition site.
Read more: blogs.kqed.org/newsfix/2014/06/19/video-during-demolition-one-last-view-from-the-old-bay-bridge/
Video by: Adam Grossberg
My old gaffer got court-martialed for looping the OBB early on in WW2. The guys in his squadron said it couldn' t be looped. Dad called bs and set out to prove them wrong. I bet there was some money involved too.
At the appointed hour he showed up in his plane and looped it! Unfortunately a newspaper photographer was there and took some pics that went front page the next day. The Navy command got the number of the plane and that evening dad was in the brig for willful and reckless disobedience of orders.
But the Navy didn't figure on my grandmother. She knew an Army general - and got him to intervene for my father. The court-martial was dropped but he was kicked out of the Navy.
He then applied to the Army Air Corp and was accepted there. But as a NCO. LOL!
He ended up flying C46's and C47's over the Himalayas on the India-China-Burma route; where he got into trouble again, for stealing a Jeep to go tiger hunting. A true Irishman!
I think about him a lot.
The old bridge served a great purpose. But the new bridge is gorgeous, spectacular, and (most importantly) much safer than the old one. Both are marvels of engineering.
Grew up there from 1954-1975. I remember being about 4 with my dad on the street car to Oakland on the bottom deck along with the trucks. The cars were on the top deck. I loved it!
My father was an iron worker on this bridge
I worked at SFO and OAK when I got out of the USAF in 85, It was night work 12-8, commuted from Vacaville, I remember that the double decker bridge reminded me of my home in philly, we have one near our Airport; of course, that one isn't going over the Beautiful SF Bay...But the double deckness of it just always reminded me...The traffic heading in at 6 AM from Vallejo to the bridge was staggering...Most of the time they'd be stopped...3 hours wasn't unusual for them to commute...We didn't have that problem at midnight!
I was born and lived in the Bay Area for 40 years. I crossed the old bridge countless times.
Thanks to the brave men who built the original bridge and allowed us to cross it for years.
I wish they had put the troll on the new bridge but people have no sense of history or humor.
They put it in some museum or something.
i herd parts of it are in a museum
It was how I came into SF when I moved there. While the Golden Gate gets all the attention, my heart will always be with the workhorse Bay Bridge.
Some of us will miss the old bridge between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island. The new tower span may be modern and safer but it lacks any gutsy character and it further erases the memory of the venerable old trains that crossed the Bay on the bridge's lower level until 1958.
Some of my earliest fond memories were crossing that giant going to Grandmommy's in the valley then returning home [San Francisco]. So long.
Grandmommy. I think that sounds so cute 😊
My mom lives in San Francisco and I live In Modesto so I get it
@@tommyc7729 Aw, thanks. lol. that's what we all called that regally powerful yet meek & humble blessing of a woman.
man i miss going on this brige :(
I haven't been in California for about 8 yrs, the Bay Bridge was the heart of the area. When I go back someday I will miss seeing it's structure.
Until 1958, three interurban electric railroads ran on the bottom deck of the Bay Bridge on 2 tracks to the Transbay Terminal! Plus at 1:37 you can see the even older ferry terminal, which two of the railroads used to service until 1939, when the railway on the bridge opened (after delays). !
@Archer Stanton At 1:37 it shows the old Key System's ferry mole, at the right. It handled Key System and Sacramento Northern trains as well as ferries to the Ferry Building in San Francisco. It held out until the end of the 1939 Worlds Fair, in which it was promptly demolished.
Its not the Ferry Building, its the Key Mole.
It's sad to see this old bridge go. I remember crossing over it a few times when I was a kid back in the 1980's. I can also remember when the earthquake of 1989 damaged it, causing a piece of the upper deck to fall onto the lower deck. I lived out in Fairfield at the time and felt that 6.9 earthquake shake the apartment. I'll never forget that day.
I live in Stockton, we felt it over here too and I could remember the earthquake when it hit SF, I was in the 4th grade when it happened, now I'm 35
no one asks bless new things but the old no more safe my steps
:)...Good ol Fairfield...I was at Travis 82-85...I lived in Vacaville though...It was such a farm town back then...I took my wife there on our honeymoon in the 90's...I didn't recognize ANYTHING! :)
@Tom Smith :)..I remember them wel!l...Going to Sac from Vacaville, you'd go past them all the time...I was there 82-86... I got married in 93...I was so lost; EVERYthing was so different! The Nut Tree had a Great Restaurant...I lived next door to a guard from Vacaville, and knew a few in the neighborhood...Do you still live there or when were you in that area?
@Tom Smith Man oh man, I think I've had quite a life, until I read someone like you! :)... 66 going to the Nam! How's your health? I hope you're still going strong! Good health and freedom to you and yours...Texas is a great state too...And per capita; the prettiest girls in the U.S!
I miss The Bay so much, it will always be home.
I moved to the Bay Area in 1989 2 months before the big earthquake and remember the damage, alot of history with that bridge.
The Oakland Bay Bridge lives on in Train Simulator Classic's Sacramento Northern Railroad Route. Long live the Oakland Bay Bridge!
It remains to be seen wether the new one lasts as long as the old one
Thanks. Great video!~
the new bridge doesnt look as cool, i love those big boxy steel girder bridges!
kineticdeath those boxy steel girder bridges were found to be too rigid for seismically active areas like coastal California.
@Archer Stanton I was refering only from a visual stand point, of course im not even trying to be en engineer saying "better to make it x". Just like the space shuttle was an impressive thing to watch on launch. We all know how unsafe and overly expensive that was too
Спасибо за видео
I had to do the same thing with my Lego Grand Carousel in order to pack it away in its box for a move but in big pieces to make reassembling quicker while still using the instruction book. Disassembling took about an hour or two.
Currently, the Oakland Museum of California is having some applications for Bay Bridge steel to be reused for public art projects.
I remember driving in that thing. The Cypress freeway structure too. I am older than time.
Me too!!!!😉👍
So is the west side of the bridge going to make the next earthquake? Who knows it’s too pretty to take down
My dad used to go to UC Berkeley
congrats
let it go in the water. great fishing holes. :)
Every fucking Ribbit hand riveted dude......... RIP
CASTRO VALLEY NATIVE
The old bridge is more handsome than the new bridge. It should have been restored. The new bridge is hideous like many modern kinds of bridges. I hope there are no plans to replace the Golden Gate Bridge with a modern replacement.
It is tough, but necessary step.
The old bridge is too rigid and may not survive a next major quake, and it was obvious during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake.
It was an engineering marvel and i still like that old bridge, but nowadays, i also like the new one as well.
I feel so Bad for the People who worked hard on the Old Bridge and if they were still alive I bet they would be upset because they worked hard on the bridge.
Infrastructure is meant to be replaced and repaired
By the time that bridge was complete the method of construction was obsolete
@@Africanfrogs yo user name cap
Trains utilized this Bridge.
I would say that those vertical cables from the main catenery cable to the deck should include a lot of diagonals to form triangles in the web of cables on each side . Those rectangles formed between the main catenery cables and the main deck can change shape and so the deck can support harmonic vibrations along it. Those rectangular spaces between the vertical cables are not much different from those on the Narrow Tacoma bridge. Put is some diagonal cables to include better damping and a more robust bridge will result. About those rectangles being changed to triangles , those who know that a triangle does not change its shape would know why I said what I said.
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i belie where that where original it start before the warter they should leave it up for memory
When i heard that engineer say, that they cant do what they did back in the day when bridge was built.
Said it is to " complicated" lmfao 😂
Bridge is over 80 yrs old, basically saying that todays engineers are fkn worthless 🙄
Why is it coming down? I would think with your traffic?
because it's not stable enough to withstand another earthquake
are they going to blud a new bring
They already built a new bridge. You can see it in this video.
why not use TNT?
it would fall in the bay and make a big mess and kill everyone on the bridge, and it would mess up the building of the new bridge. It would also mess with the tension and make a huge steel stress ball. This isn't Minecraft.
E.B. Recently a bridge got demolished out here using tnt and the new bridge was also as close to it as the bay bridge but I think it’s more California state laws that forbid it being blown up czcams.com/video/_2vVjMg_ZAc/video.html
Atsf49 you also have the Hayward Fault running nearby and a heavy implosion could possibly cause unwanted seismic activity.
@@robertpreskop4425 Ahh, no, not at all although your suggestion that it would impact a fault line provides some well appreciated humor. Any ground/above ground explosions (especially that of a relatively thin steel bridge with many hollow sections) would not in any way be felt at the level or have any impact on a fault line miles below the ground's surface. It would take an atomic bomb explosion to transmit seismic forces miles deep. Look at the two WW2 atomic bombings of Japan, which lies on the very active "circle of fire" fault which had no effect on the fault line. Otherwise, they wouldn't be constructing a new bridge at such a "hot zone".
@0:34 lol
he said erected
it is time for the Bay Bridge to retire it has served its purpose but it will not survive the big one it is time for it to be torn down the new Bay Bridge will take over it is structurally sound and can survive a quake.
..lol
China makes good stuff
@@Bondovw this time they had to the bridge was in an earthquake zone and both the Chinese and Japan know you need to have your structures earthquake proof or the big one will destroy it.
@@geomodelrailroader yep
Why the hell aren't they imploding it? I always thought that old bridge was ugly. Good thing it's going away. IMHO
Because then you have to salvage all of that from the bottom of the bay and disrupt shipping traffic and likely cause damage to the new bridge.
Jack Price don't forget the lead paint
Mitchell J They aren't blowing it up because they want to protect the Bay so they are taking it down in reverse order.
It's not ugly... The new bridge is. These old bridges have intricate architectural details and their beauty is in the trusswork... Modern Suspension Bridges if you have seen one you have seen em all.
Very good point, chdreturns, and the cantilevers were a product of their OWN artistically beuatiful times! :) Thanks for your comment!
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$7,000,000,000 final cost. Same suspension style could have been done with NON-FUNCTIONAL tower and wires for $700,000,000 by DELETING unneeded wide ship crossing space underneath that required costly construction to accommodate. Since ALL tall ships cross under the west span anyway, $6,300,000,000 was WASTED.
Why not use the stuff they used to take down the Twin Towers?
a fucking airplane?
I dont think they are going to fly an expensive jet liner into a bridge...
Jajajajajja. The old brain washed had to put in his two cents.........
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