Tacoma Narrows Bridge after the Collapse.  Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st. Only four months later, the great span's short life ended in disaster, twisting to destruction in a wind storm.   Good judgment comes from experience, and experience comes from bad judgment.  —Barry LePatner
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