Evening Talk: The First Carquinez Bridge - 7:30 PM, Thursday, April 19, 2007
Our second event for 2007 will be an evening talk on the design, construction, and use of the first Carquinez Bridge, the largest bridge west of the Mississippi River when completed in 1927. Our speaker is Andy Hope from Caltrans. The meeting will be held in the Directors Conference Room of the Historic Central Building, 436 14th Street, Oakland. The building is right at the 12th Street BART station. We will have people to let you into the building, as the guard will not be on duty then. Note that this is not a dinner meeting.
Andy Hope is an architectural historian with degrees in architecture from the University of Michigan and the University of Wisconsin at Milwaukee. For the past fourteen years, he has worked at Caltrans, helping to ensure that highway projects comply with state and federal historic preservation laws. Andy prepared a history of the first Carquinez Bridge in 2001, as part of the Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) documentation for this historic structure.
Thanks to Andy for the following images. There was a newsletter article on these bridges.
Lifting the Center Span of the Bridge
The Carquinez Bridge (date unknown, perhaps 1940's)