Gallery
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Due to improper design of rebar placement, the support columns broke with ease, sending the structure down.
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The collapsed Cypress Street Viaduct seen from ground level. Note the detachment of upper vertical elements from lower and the lack of reinforcement at the point of detachment.
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Portion of the collapsed Cypress Street Viaduct after the Loma Prieta Earthquake; the collapse resulted in 42 fatalities.
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A pile of rebar and concrete from the collapsed Cypress Street Viaduct
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Governor George Deukmejian, Mayor Lionel J. Wilson and President George H.W. Bush inspect Cypress Street Viaduct damage.
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Famous quotes containing the word gallery:
“I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.”
—Lewis H. Lapham (b. 1935)
“To a person uninstructed in natural history, his country or sea-side stroll is a walk through a gallery filled with wonderful works of art, nine-tenths of which have their faces turned to the wall. Teach him something of natural history, and you place in his hands a catalogue of those which are worth turning round.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95)
“I should like to have seen a gallery of coronation beauties, at Westminster Abbey, confronted for a moment by this band of Island girls; their stiffness, formality, and affectation contrasted with the artless vivacity and unconcealed natural graces of these savage maidens. It would be the Venus de’ Medici placed beside a milliner’s doll.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)