Throwback Thursday | THE BAINBRIDGE BLAB
Published 2:23 pm Thursday, November 12, 2015
Let’s look back through time to the Wednesday, Nov. 15, 1961 of the Bainbridge Island Review.
On the front page
Work Starts On Mainland-Island Bridge Research
About 100 light charges of dynamite will be exploded in waters off Bainbridge Island north from Point White to Fletcher Bay.
The tests, which started Monday and were to run through November 27, were being conducted by a Seattle firm for the State Highway Department’s preliminary foundation study of the proposed Bainbridge-Bremerton suspension bridge.
The blasts, recorded by geological instruments, will tell scientists something about the strata upon which the bridge’s pilings would have to be built. Four potential sites in the three-mile range will be tested.
Because electric detonators will be used, the Coast Guard is asking that radios on ships in the area be turned off when within a half mile of the area. The blasts probably will not be felt on shore, though small geysers will be visible.
The last session of the State Legislature appropriated funds for a feasibility study of the bridge. For several years, Bremertonians and Islanders have been considering a proposal that the bridge and consolidation of the Bremerton and Island ferry runs would provide more round trips to Seattle.
Yoo Hoo!
Did you lose your drawers
A Bellevue woman called The Review yesterday and said her husband had found some drawers which he thought belonged to a Bainbridge Islander. She thought this newspaper would help locate the owner. O.K., we’ll try.
The filing drawers, containing a Review and a box marked, ’96 deluxe adding machine rolls,” were found between 2:30 and 3:30 o’clock Saturday afternoon near the ned of the tunnel at the Lake Washington floating bridge.
If these are our drawers, please contact Allen R. Hill, 5819 Pleasure Point, Bellevue.
News item
Bainbridge High School students practiced a bomb warning Thursday. At the sound of the intermittent fire bell, they were directed and assigned to certain halls according to where their room were.
Inside
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