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January 20, 1938. "San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge under construction. View of track and roadway, lower deck, East Bay. Caltrans, photographer." Historic American Buildings Survey, Library of Congress. View full size.
The tracks were replaced with roadway in the late 1950s, after the transbay train service ended. That entire Oakland side of the bridge has recently been replaced with a new structure, since the 1989 earthquake exposed its hazardous condition. One of the most famous film images of that event was a car plunging from the upper deck to the lower, because a section of roadway had topped at one end.
we will begin to discuss the word "perspective."
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