Tacoma Narrows bridge collapses in Tacoma, Washington. Vehicles passing under Tacoma bridge. Car parked on the bridge as it starts swaying. The Tacoma bridge, aka "Galloping Gertie" collapses from the center. Part of broken bridge falls into water.
Daffodils in Tacoma, Washington. Women pluck daffodils growing in rows in a field. Yellow daffodils being plucked by women.
Kidnapping of 10 year old Charles Mattson from his house in Tacoma, Washington at 4605 N Verde Street, a tudor-style brick mansion. Men and women gather outside the house. Policemen check cars and people passing nearby. The house where kidnapping of the boy took place. Christmas tree in the house. Investigating officer inside the house. The view down the steep incline to Commencement Bay behind the house. Boats patrol along Commencement Bay to find any clue. One boat named the Vagabond. Police and press cars lined outside the house. Press representatives rush to temporary telephones erected on a utility pole near the house to hear updates on the case.
Capture of criminals by the agents of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in the United States. The kidnapping of 9 year old boy George H. Weyerhaeuser from Tacoma, Washington. A ransom letter from the kidnappers. The FBI investigates the case. An airplane parked at an air base. Men disembark from the airplane and walk on the air base. A poster on a wall for the identification of the kidnapper.
Panorama of business district Tacoma in Washington, United States. Aerial view of buildings. A drawbridge. Ships at anchor. Pacific Avenue, the main business artery of Tacoma. Horse-drawn vans and pedestrian traffic. Several parks and open spaces in the city. Residential areas in the city. Point Defiance Park. Exterior of several buildings. Men walking in parks and towards the buildings. Complete change of scene, from Tacoma, to views of the first Thurston County Courthouse, in Olympia, Washington, where the State Legislature met in a new East Wing, from 1905 to 1927. (Aka the old Capitol).
Sightseers and several parked cars are seen on one bank of the Tacoma Narrows. They are watching undulations of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, called "Galloping Gertie" in the State of Washington, United States. Scene shifts to the bridge roadway as vibrations and oscillations increase leading to the total destruction of the the bridge. Pulsating winds blowing through the narrows caused vibrations of the bridge to reach its natural resonance frequency resulting in increased amplitude of oscillations until the structure was destroyed. Leonard Coatsworth, a Tacoma newspaper editor, is seen walking from the bridge near its end after abandoning his car, which is still on the bridge, until it collapses.
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