Today’s Mystery Photo has a major clue staring you in the face. Figure it out and you’ll be on your way to identify this mystery. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net, and include your hometown.
Channing Haskell, Peachtree Corners, came in first with the right answer to the recent mystery: “It’s the Aerial Lift Bridge spanning the Duluth (Minnesota) Ship Canal allowing the Great Lakes freighters to transit in and out of the Duluth Harbor at the western end of Lake Superior.” The photo came from Robert Forman of Grayson.
Others recognizing it included Dan Mackaben, Lawrenceville; Lou Camerio, Lilburn, who said: “It has been modified several times and reminds me of the Tower Bridge in London;” Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. and George Graf of Palmyra, Va. Graf added: “The Duluth Aerial Lift Bridge is a span-drive configuration movable lift bridge constructed in 1901-1905 and modified in 1929. It spans the Duluth Ship Canal, which connects the city of Duluth with Minnesota Point. The bridge was designed by Thomas F. McGilvray and C.A.P. Turner, and constructed by the Modern Steel Structural Company to allow ships to pass underneath and vehicles to cross the span. Four 125-horsepower Westinghouse Induction motors are used to move the bridge. Only two motors are needed to actually move the bridge; one at each end. The other two are back-ups. The motors are attached to winching drums (two at each end) that wind the bridge up or down on eight 1 1/4-inch wire ropes (two per winching drum).”
Photographic show at Duluth Public Library by Frank Sharp. It’s entitled as “Six Continents in One Lifetime” and will run from November 22 through January 31, 2022. Hours are from Mondays to Thursdays, 10 a.m. until 8 p.m.; Fridays and Saturdays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.; and Sundays from noon until 5 p.m.
Silent Auction at the Norcross Gallery and Studios is now underway. Bid on 100 original paintings, all 12×12 inches, during this annual FUNdraiser. You may view these paintings in many styles and genres through December 4 at the gallery, at 116 Carlyle Street in Norcross.
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