Vincent Thomas Bridge over the Los Angeles Harbor Main Channel
Photos
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Photo taken by David Kimbrough |
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Photo taken by David Kimbrough |
Facts
- Overview
- Suspension bridge over Los Angeles Harbor main channel on CA 47 in Los Angeles
- Location
- Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1963; rehabilitated 1990
- Design
- Wire suspension
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 1,499.4 ft.
Total length: 5,991.1 ft.
- Also called
- San Pedro Terminal Island Bridge, St Thomas Bridge.
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +33.75000, -118.27000 (decimal degrees)
33°45'00" N, 118°16'12" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/382372/3735161 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- San Pedro
- Inventory numbers
- CA 53-1471 (California bridge number)
BH 11041 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 10/2007)
- Deck condition rating: Serious (3 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 56.7 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2000)
- 44,500
Sources
- David Kimbrough - kimbrough-photo [at] charter [dot] net
Comments
Was this the bridge used in the 1974 movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" ?
It sure looks like it and could anybody confirm it?
Thanks
This bridge connects San Pedro, a district of Los Angeles but once a separate city, with Terminal Island. Terminal Island is a basically a very large sand bar at the mouth of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers which has since been turned into a completely paved island. No one lives on Terminal Island any more, it is eniterly given over to ship yards, train yards, coal storage facilities, a fish cannery (the sole survivor of what used to be many), sewage treament plant, etc. The bridge led to the demise of the ferry that used to transport people back and forth between San Pedro and Terminal Island.
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She is massive!
for details on this bridge see: http://www.sanpedrochamber.com/champint/vtbrdg.htm
