“It looked like an octopus or something like that ... Donahue’s company helped build the newer, eastern span of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge. “They try to scare you,” he says.

Nearly 80 years ago, on Nov. 7, 1940, the original Tacoma Narrows Bridge ... has seen of the bridge twisting and collapsing. You have those rumors of the giant octopus. You have the wreckage ...

TACOMA, Wash. — Thursday marks the 84th anniversary of when the Tacoma Narrows Bridge infamously collapsed due to strong winds in 1940. The bridge, also commonly referred to as Galloping Gertie ...

Baltimore has now joined Tacoma as a city inextricably linked with monumental bridge collapses. But the demise of the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge less than a year after it opened in 1940 came ...