Bridges: A History of the World's Most Spectacular Spans by Judith Dupre

Author:Judith Dupre [Dupre, Judith]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: Hachette Books
Published: 2017-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

In 1919, the first year of McCullough’s sixteen-year stint as Oregon’s state bridge engineer, Oregon imposed a tax on gasoline, the first in the nation, to build and maintain its highways and bridges. Later, he was armed with New Deal monies: in 1934 the federal Public Works Administration funded five major bridges along Route 101 to provide jobs and attract future tourism revenue; after the five spans were built, tourism jumped 72 percent in one year.

Always practical, McCullough typically worked in concrete, which was less costly than steel and better weathered the coastal climate. Concrete, capable of taking on nearly any form, also sparked his aesthetic imagination. He exploited the material’s expressive possibilities in exuberant designs that draw on art deco, Egyptian, and Gothic styles. “Jewel-like clasps in perfect settings, linking units of a beautiful highway” is how he described his bridges to the Coos Bay Times in 1936.

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