Was this the bridge used in the 1974 movie "Gone in 60 Seconds" ?
It sure looks like it and could anybody confirm it?
Thanks
This bridge connects San Pedro, a district of Los Angeles but once a separate city, with Terminal Island. Terminal Island is a basically a very large sand bar at the mouth of the Los Angeles and San Gabriel Rivers which has since been turned into a completely paved island. No one lives on Terminal Island any more, it is eniterly given over to ship yards, train yards, coal storage facilities, a fish cannery (the sole survivor of what used to be many), sewage treament plant, etc. The bridge led to the demise of the ferry that used to transport people back and forth between San Pedro and Terminal Island.
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The Vincent Thomas Bridge was determined eligible for inclusion in the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Caltrans Historic Bridge Inventory Update of 2010. The bridge is eligible for engineering significance. In addition to being a rare bridge type of "exceptional spant length, monumental scale and design complexity," it is the first suspension bridge in the United States not to use rivets in its construction.