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Photographer: Barry Swackhamer
Taken: September 22, 2017
Caption: Safety and Beauty Marker
Additional Description: Captions: (left) The men who worked on the masonry took their lives in their hands. This 1940 photo shows them preparing the steep rick face.; (bottom center) The Chasm Bridge, half viaduct, and several hundred feet of concrete curbing and masonry stone wall were all completed by 1941. (bottom, second from the right) By 2005, the original wall was leaning outward in several places. Some sections had even fallen onto residential properties below.; (bottom right) The restoration project began with a careful disassembling of the existing wall. Workers put marks on each rock to make sure they went back where they belonged. They then reassembled the wall with improved structural support.
Submitted: February 4, 2018, by Barry Swackhamer of Brentwood, California.
Database Locator Identification Number: p415653
File Size: 3.799 Megabytes

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