The Tacoma Narrows suspension bridge, crossing the Puget Sound to the Kitsap peninsula, opened to traffic on July 1, 1940, and collapsed due to wind-induced flutter on November 7. The only fatality was Tubby, a cocker spaniel who tumbled into the Tacoma Narrows along with his master’s car.
Hi,
Came to you blog from the Historical Fiction discussion on Goodreads. Coincidentally, when I was a news reporter in the early 1990’s in Seattle, I covered a story about the bridge closing to traffic because we were having a really terrific windstorm.