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Yacht Club Bridge

Orleans Parish, Louisiana

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Photo taken by Maunsel White

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BH Photo #449847

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Facts 

Overview
Lost Deck girder bridge over New Basin Canal on Tennision Highway
Location
New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana
Status
No longer exists
Builder
- Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. of Chicago, Illinois
Design
Deck girder bascule
Also called
Tennision Bridge
Pontchartrain Boulevard Bridge
Approximate latitude, longitude
+30.02523, -90.11892   (decimal degrees)
30°01'31" N, 90°07'08" W   (degrees°minutes'seconds")
Approximate UTM coordinates
15/777862/3325078 (zone/easting/northing)
Quadrangle map:
New Orleans East
Inventory number
BH 61746 (Bridgehunter.com ID)

Categories 

Bascule (1,040)
Deck girder (5,046)
Girder (9,136)
Girder bascule bridge (1)
Lost (22,249)
Louisiana (672)
 Movable (2,844)
New Orleans, Louisiana (56)
Orleans Parish, Louisiana (52)
Owned by city (4,928)
Strauss Bascule Bridge Co. (172)
Strauss Overhead Counterweight Bascule (54)

Update Log 

  • June 16, 2019: New photos from Douglas Butler
  • November 11, 2015: Updated by Douglas Butler: info
  • July 16, 2014: Added by Douglas Butler

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Tennision Bridge
Posted June 15, 2019, by Maunsel White (maunsel [dot] white [at] mchsi [dot] com)

The Yacht Club Bridge was not this one. It crossed the entrance to the Yacht Club Pen (harbor) that opened into the New Basin Canal and was on Pontchartrain Blvd. at the Southeast corner of West End Park. The boats had to go through this bridge in order to get in and out of the yacht harbor from the canal.