Friday, January 4, 2013
The Pulaski Bridge: A Brief and Strange History
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by Henry Stewart
on Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 11:35 AM
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In 1969, a bomb was removed from "a rubble-strewn building site" underneath the bridge—"a 500-pound, rust-colored, World War II aerial bomb that neighborhood youngsters had been playing on for two years," the
Times reported. "Sometimes we'd go up on the bridge and throw bricks and bottles at it," one such youngster told the paper.
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