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With "creeper" construction completed the first steel of South Shore towers was erected on February 2, 1938. View from Prospect Point.
View from Prospect Point showing barge which started operations on North Shore waterfront. Note first breakwater and right-of-way slash.
View from near top of south Bridge tower looking towards Stanley Park and driveway. The cables on left of catwalk. A steep climb.
Tower piers are finished (South Shore). A few days after this picture was taken work commenced on erection of big steel construction "creeper".
The Union Jack marks "the top" - it is tradition among steel workers to fly the flag when top is reached. "Creeper" has finished its job.
The 61 strands in each suspension cable are secured to seven steel butts shown above. These butts are set in tons of solid concrete.
Taken by long-distance lens from below cable anchorage on South Shore. North Shore steel is going up. Workmen are wearing steel helmets.
Surveyor's stakes show cut-off of Lost Lagoon. Present road now curves almost through center of this picture. Road now flanked with pathway.
Stuart Cameron and Company workmen placing granite facings of South piers. Huge blocks were cut to fit and numbered and brought by barge.
Structural steel workers walk along narrow trestles "away up", even as you and I move along solid sidewalks. Note big crane for lifting steel.
Steel work on the bridge road-bed is complete and concrete laying on road through Stanley Park finished to bridge head.
South Shore. Near the floor shown, tons of earth engulfed and and crushed a worker - the only fatality of entire bridge construction
Sections of Bridge road-bed supported from main cables. Each section is raised from scows. Union Steamship passing.
Section of suspension cable. Diameter 13 1/2 inches. Cable is wire-wrapped over a cedar covering. 1050 tons in cables.
Scow load of granite blocks for facings of the two piers. The stone and cement piers measure twenty feet in height.
Ready-built sections of catwalks were drawn up two at a time, placed in position and bolted to supporting cables.
Progress made on construction of pedestrian subway and overhead traffic road at causeway entrance to Stanley Park.
Powerful crane on "creeper" lifts a section of North Shore tower into position. Note man at lower right steadying section with rope.
Painting quickly followed erection of steel. Painter shown at work on North Shore viaduct using spray-gun. Final coat is sea-green.
Only the top steel-work bwetween the two pillars remains to be finished. Roadbed will be laid over the flat cross-bar.
One of the "cellars" cut out of solid blue clay will be walled with concrete for cable anchorages on South Shore. Note steel reinforced rods.
On this date the last of the 61 wire ropes which form each of the suspension cables were secured to their butts in the anchorage.
Looking down into east cable anchorage on South Shore, showing clamps which secure each of the 61 strands of cable to concrete.
Long-distance lens gives close-up of bridge construction on North Shore. Tower foundations nearly complete. Old P.G.E. [Pacific Great Eastern Railway] tracks show at right.
Long distance lens picture of first section of Bridge roadway. Steel being raised from scow to centre of span. Note the signal man.
Long distance lens gives close-up of painters and electricians putting finishing touches. Cable covering machine at work on left catwalk. These catwalks are steep!
In mid-June, nine of the road-bed sections are in position between the towers. Looking towards West Vancouver.
Granite rocks were dumped inside the edge of this caisson before cement was poured. Pump is carrying off water that has seeped through.
Erection of the first sections of steel for the roadbed where it enters Stanley Park. Sections suspended on wire cables hanging from main cable.
Due to the tide, the scow carrying this first road section made two attempts before its position was just right for releasing its heavy load of steel.
"Creeper" is shown in position for erection of the top (and last) section of South tower. Taken from West Vancouver Ferry.
Construction of number two caisson framework from Prospect Point. Bridge ferry-boat is seen heading for North Shore Plant
Commencement of construction plant on South Shore, seen from lookout, Prospect Point. Buttments and first derrick in position.
Close-up of South Shore construction plant and trestle erected in connection with underwater foundations for the caissons.
Clamping the last of the 61 wire ropes which go into each cable. One of the cable anchorages on the South Shore.
Building rock-filled cribbing at water's edge on South Shore which are foundations for derricks. Rocks and logs brought by scows
Bridge-head in Stanley Park. Steel suspension cables will be held in position on top of the two steel pillars as they pass into cable anchorage below.
Bridge construction plant from Prospect Point. Everything in readiness for commencing the two caissons.
Big 61-strand cables which support roadway, pass down these concrete "steps" into the cable anchorage on South Shore
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