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:: Sunday, May 09, 2004 ::
Ironworkers reunite for golden anniversary of bridge groundbreaking By John Flesher / AP, DetNews.com
ST. IGNACE -- Even as dignitaries broke ground May 7, 1954, skeptics considered the project farfetched: a bridge across the 5-mile-long, windswept waters separating Michigan’s Lower and Upper Peninsulas.
But on Friday, a crowd of retired laborers and officials who proved the doubters wrong joyfully celebrated the golden anniversary of the start of construction on the Mackinac Bridge.
“I still get goose bumps just looking at it,” said Mike Gleason, 75, of Gaylord, one of 3,500 crew members who did the risky work of constructing what remains the world’s third-longest suspension bridge. It spans the Straits of Mackinac, the intersection of Lakes Huron and Michigan.
During a ceremony on the north shore of the straits, authorities unveiled a gold-colored token coin engraved with images of the bridge on one side and several ironworkers on the other.------------------------------------------- posted 7:46 AM :: reference link ::
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