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Title: Hazy Daze On The Poplar Street Bridge
Date: 1986-08-18, 1986-08-18
Description: Traffic on the Poplar Street Bridge heads west on the fog-shrouded bridge this AM… In the background is the abandoned, ghostly MacArthur Bridge.

Title: The Newly Paved and Newly Striped Poplar Street Bridge
Date: 1986-08-11, 1986-08-11
Description: All lanes of east bound Poplar Street Bridge are open with new pavement and new striping in the early evening on Monday.

Title: Heavy Traffic Snakes Onto Poplar Street Bridge
Date: 1986-08-06, 1986-08-06
Description: Traffic snakes onto Poplar St. bridge ramp at Spruce St. intersection.

Title: Heavy Traffic On Poplar Street Bridge Toward Prairie State
Date: 1986-08-06, 1986-08-06
Description: Traffic snakes it way onto Bernard F. Dickmann Memorial Bridge (aka Poplar St. Bridge) late in day. This is an intersection which anonymous letter-writer has complained about, particularly traffic entering from Spruce St. (coming in at right sice of pic.)

Title: Demolition
Date: 1986-07-21, 1986-07-21
Description: Hunks of concrete and rebar looks like a mouth-ful of bad teeth with braces. (This image filed under Merchants Bridge.)

Title: Demolition
Date: 1986-07-21, 1986-07-21
Description: Hunks of concrete and rebar looks like a mouth-ful of bad teeth with braces. (This image filed under Merchants Bridge.)

Title: Poplar Street Bridge Re-Paving
Date: 1986-07-11, 1986-07-11
Description: Wearing protective gear and ready to sandblast, is Robert Feikert of Pace Construction.

Title: Poplar Street Bridge Re-Paving
Date: 1986-07-11, 1986-07-11
Description: Clem Hess of Nelco Manufacturing, guides a Porta-ShotBlast cleaning machine as it moves across the steel surface of the eastbound lane.

Title: Poplar Street Bridge Re-Paving
Date: 1986-07-11, 1986-07-11
Description: Lisa Gregory sweeps up some of the loose shot along the right hand lane of the eastbound traffic direction.

Title: Poplar Street Bridge Re-Paving
Date: 1986-07-11, 1986-07-11
Description: Eastbound traffic merging in the two left hand lanes onto the bridge complex.

Title: Traffic Backed Up Onto Popular Street Bridge
Date: 1986-07-08, 1986-07-08
Description: Traffic backed up on Memorial Drive entering the east bound ramps of I-55-70 on to the Popular Street Bridge between 3:30 and 4:00 p.m.

Title: Highway and I-55 Crossing The Poplar Street Bridge
Date: 1986-07-08, 1986-07-08
Description: East bound lanes of Highway 40 and I-55 join together to from 2 lanes to cross the Poplar Street Bridge during rush hour traffic.

Title: Jefferson Barracks Bridge Troubles
Date: 1986-06-11, 1986-06-11
Description: What appears to be the accident scene.

Title: The Final Demoliton Of Twenty-First Street Bridge
Date: 1986-04-19, 1986-04-19
Description: Aalco Wrecking Co. workers use a cutting torch to cut the two top arched beams on the bridge before it collapsed over the rail yards. Two cages of workers hung from cranes as they both torched simultaneously.

Title: Final Demolition Of Twenty-First Street Bridge
Date: 1986-04-19, 1986-04-19
Description: Hanging in a cage from two cranes, workers use cutting torches simultaneously on both ends of the arch span to cut the beams so the bridge can fall.

Title: Final Demolition Of The Twenty-First Street Bridge
Date: 1986-04-19, 1986-04-19
Description: After the two top arched beams are cut, the bridge begins to collapse over the rail yards. The demoliton was done by the Aalco Wrecking Co.

Title: Final Demolition Of The Twenty-First Street Bridge
Date: 1986-04-19, 1986-04-19
Description: The bridge span over the rail yards is successfully cut down after workers cut the two top arched beams to make the span collapse.

Title: St. Louis County Bridge
Date: 1986-03-24, 1986-03-27
Description: Concrete is poured on a form to bridge I-70 at Old Bonhommme.

Title: Demolition
Date: 1986-02-25, 1986-02-25
Description: This building at the 4100 block of Martin Luther King (Sarah and MLK) that was undergoing demolition when a worker was injured. (This image filed under Merchants Bridge.)

Title: MacArthur Bridge-Concrete Crumbling
Date: 1986-02-21, 1986-02-21
Description: An image of the crumbling concrete from the approach and roadbed of the MacArthur Bridge.

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