Los Angeles County Bridges: California Bridges: North Broadway Avenue Bridge across the Los Angeles River (2)

August 1999 (34.01799 Degrees, -118.2250 Degrees) Los Angeles River Bridges

We've arrived at a group of bridges that were built at about the same time, in the same style, and with the same purpose. It starts with the North Broadway Avenue Bridge (being retrofit in the photo), the North Spring Street Bridge, and in the far distance the Main Street Bridge. Out of sight are the Cesar E. Chavez Viaduct, the E. First Street Bridge, the E. Fourth Street Bridge, the E. Sixth Street Bridge, the E. Seventh Street Bridge, and the E. Olympic Blvd. Bridge. They were mostly built in the 1910s and 1920s, they were built in the Belle Arts style and are mostly concrete arch bridges, and they were all built to persuade visitors that Los Angeles was someplace special. We'll study all of these bridges over the next week or two.

Los Angeles County Bridges: California Bridges: North Broadway Avenue Bridge across the Los Angeles River (2) by Mark Yashinsky is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.