Monday, January 14, 2019


Photos from our friends at Wikipedia.
As a child, when we visited kin in Pt. Arthur, TX, for reasons I don't recall we had occasion to cross the Orange Bridge, as it was called back then. My place during these crossings was hiding in the back floorboard of our family's 1949 two-door Chevy Coupe. What many have described as the scariest bridge in Texas--I think it remains the tallest bridge in Texas--allows State Highway 87 and State Highway 73 to connect Port Arthur in Jefferson County on the southwest bank of the Neches River with Bridge City in Orange County on the northeast bank. The bridge, completed on September 8, 1938, is a through truss bridge, just upstream from Sabine Lake. It received its official name, Rainbow Bridge, in 1957 and was listed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.

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