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A Black Murray Morgan Bridge?

From The News Tribune:
http://blog.thenewstribune.com/politics/2011/03/24/tacoma-landmarks-commission-votes-to-paint-murray-morgan-bridge-black-none-do-mick-jagger-impression/

The Tacoma Landmarks Commission has voted to paint the refurbished Murray Morgan Bridge black. The claim is that this was most likely the original color.

I say keep it the bluish-silver color it currently is, and the color most people know it as.

However, I do agree with this: “One commissioner said he hopes it will once again be celebrated as it was when it opened in 1913. Ken House said he was recently in Duluth, Minn. and saw how its old vertical lift bridge is an icon, “venerated in almost the way Seattle venerates the Space Needle.”

Ben

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