Holly Street over the Arroyo Seco
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Holly Street Bridge Looking North The famous Rose Bowl is visible behind and below the bridge www.bridges-of-los-angeles-county.com |
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To Open Bridge at Pasadena - Los Angeles Time 1925
Written by Los Angeles Times Staff Correspondent
New Span Over Arroyo Seco Ready for Use
Structure Praised for Unique Construction
Is Work of City Engineer W.C. Earle
Pasadena, April 2 [1925]
Pasadena's newest bridge which spans the Arroyo Seco will be formally opened to the public Saturday, the 11th inst., it was announced today by City Manager Koiner. The new bridge, known as the Linda Vista Bridge, is unique in that it was but one mighty span, believed to be the longest and highest concrete span of any bridge in the west. It was designed and built by W.C. Earle, city engineer.
When the old Linda Vista bridge was condemned last summer students from the California Institute of Technology destroyed the structure with TNT. Then bonds for $100,000 were voted for the construction of a new bridge. Bids were called for but each bid was thrown out by the directors on the grounds that they were too high and as a result the city engineer designed and built the bridge himself.
It is a structure of great stability and beauty. Col. Frank E. Webb, well-known engineer and bridge builder, who has been secured to erect the great span at San Fransico is now in Pasadena to copy the Pasadenan's style of construction. Mr. Earle was assisted by Prof. Romeo R. Martel of the California Institute of Technology and Albert La Van, authority on bridge construction.
Appropriate exercises in which city officials will participate will mark the formal opening it was declared at the City Hall today.
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Facts
- Overview
- Concrete arch bridge over Arroyo Blvd. & Arroyo Seco on Holly Street in Pasadena
- Location
- Pasadena, Los Angeles County, California
- Status
- Open to traffic
- History
- Built 1925
- Builders
- - City of Pasadena
- W.C. Earle (City Engineer)
- Design
- Arch
- Dimensions
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Length of largest span: 247.1 ft.
Total length: 410.1 ft.
- Recognition
- Eligible for the National Register of Historic Places
- Also called
- Linda Vista Street Bridge
- Approximate latitude, longitude
- +34.14833, -118.16500 (decimal degrees)
34°08'54" N, 118°09'54" W (degrees°minutes'seconds") - Approximate UTM coordinates
- 11/392599/3779216 (zone/easting/northing)
- USGS topographic map
- Pasadena
- Inventory numbers
- CA 53C-1041 (California bridge number)
BH 10985 (Bridgehunter.com ID) - Inspection (as of 08/2006)
- Deck condition rating: Poor (4 out of 9)
Superstructure condition rating: Fair (5 out of 9)
Substructure condition rating: Satisfactory (6 out of 9)
Appraisal: Structurally deficient
Sufficiency rating: 50.3 (out of 100) - Average daily traffic (as of 2000)
- 7,236
Update Log
- March 26, 2009: Essay added by David Kimbrough
- December 19, 2008: New photo from David Kimbrough
- June 6, 2008: Updated by David Kimbrough
- May 3, 2008: New photos from David Kimbrough
Sources
- David Kimbrough - kimbrough-photo [at] charter [dot] net
Comments
There a many bridges accross the Arroyo Seco which runs from the San Gabriel Mountains in the north of Los Angeles County to where it joins the Los Angeles River south of the Glendale Narrows just north of DTLA. This one is just north the much more famous Colorado Street Bridge and just south, by a few hundred meters, of the Rose Bowl.
For more photographs of the Bridges of Los Angeles County go to
www.bridges-of-los-angeles-county.com
or
http://www.youtube.com/user/bridgesoflosangeles
