Actually, it's not the bridges themselves that prompt such a seemingly odd question, but what everyone knows lies deep beneath the cold waters of the Narrows: The remains of Galloping Gertie ...

The bridge, also commonly referred to as Galloping Gertie, had just opened to the public four months earlier and used to ...

People all over the world have seen film footage of it. I’m speaking of the infamous twisting, rolling-wave “Galloping Gertie” collapse of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge in 1940. It was a ...

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed "Galloping Gertie," fell into the sound during a windstorm on November 7, 1940. The bridge's collapse was a lesson in poor design and engineering. Luckily ...

Under the waves of the Tacoma Narrows, the grave near Galloping Gertie gave birth to a lush kelp forest "dense as an African jungle," Peter Bortel says. A seabed peppered 80 years ago Saturday ...

Photos and film of the last moments of Galloping Gertie are iconic to this day. The bridge’s fall on the windy morning of Nov. 7, 1940, is still taught in schools. It is regarded as the birthing ...

She was best known as the Gertie behind the iconic South Sound restaurant, Galloping Gertie’s. While Gertie’s children usually celebrate their mother’s life on her favorite holiday in March ...

The collapse of “Galloping Gertie,” as the bridge was nicknamed, proved a cautionary tale in high-school physics classes. Dramatic film shot that day showed the bridge twist nearly 45 degrees ...

The Tacoma Narrows Bridge, nicknamed "Galloping Gertie," fell into the sound during a windstorm on November 7, 1940. The bridge's collapse was a lesson in poor design and engineering. Luckily ...