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Subject: A bridge to nowhere
Written By: bookmistress4ever on 09/14/05 at 4:25 am
This is a bridge in my former hometown, it was closed to traffic and the onramp to it was demolished in 1990 (in order to build a highway where the onramp was).
What makes this bridge different then any else? It had a small bit in the movie "Silence of the Lambs". When Clariece drives over this bridge to go to "Belevedere, ohio" to investigate a murder there, that is the bridge.
Technically the bridge is still there but with no access from the Ohio side of the river (the bridge connects Bellaire, Ohio to Benwood, West Virginia) and was built in 1932, and closed forever in 1990.
http://www.markspearman.com/ohiosights/album/belmont/pages/webbridgeToNowhere_jpg.htm
http://www.geocities.com/usandthem8087/BellaireBridgeWestVirginiaside.html
http://www.geocities.com/usandthem8087/BellaireBridgeOhioside.html
http://www.americanbyways.com/index.php?catid=447
Subject: Re: A bridge to nowhere
Written By: Wiffle on 09/23/05 at 11:03 pm
I love this sort of thing. What is it called, something like urban archaeology or something like that. I think it is amazing how things as seemingly indestructable as a bridge or road will erode without use or maintenance.
Thanks for those wonderful links!
Subject: Re: A bridge to nowhere
Written By: alyceclover on 10/29/05 at 8:33 pm
I love this sort of thing. What is it called, something like urban archaeology or something like that. I think it is amazing how things as seemingly indestructable as a bridge or road will erode without use or maintenance.
Thanks for those wonderful links!
ditto!
Subject: Re: A bridge to nowhere
Written By: logic908 on 11/17/06 at 2:24 pm
those pics are awesome! i love stuff like this
Subject: Re: A bridge to nowhere
Written By: Tia on 11/17/06 at 2:32 pm
yeah, that's cool. funny because a lot of SotL was set pretty close to where i live, quantico is about twenty miles west of me, i think?
my family and i go to brighton UK pretty often and for a while there was this burned out pier that would just sit there, all eerie looking. it was there for at least a year, it seems like. i dunno if they've fixed it yet.
http://content.answers.com/main/content/wp/en/thumb/1/1e/200px-Brighton_west_pier.jpg
Subject: Re: A bridge to nowhere
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 11/26/06 at 4:20 pm
Oh, I thought you were talking about
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravina_Island_Bridge
But this is a bridge that does not exist yet. One of Sen. Stevens' pet projects. It became synonymous with "pork barrel spending" a couple of years ago.