MEMORY LANE
– By Suzanne Soto-Davies
T hanks to reader Kay Thornton for sending the photo her
mother took of the collapsed Niagara Bridge (top, right),
and for the writings and photo courtesy of the Niagara Falls
Commission, is how we are able to reminisce this tragedy
from 1938:
Known as the Honeymoon bridge (or Falls View Bridge),
this structure started to encounter some major trouble when
huge chunks of ice began to accumulate under the bridge.
This was due to a powerful wind storm that blew ice from
Lake Erie down the Niagara River, and over the Falls.
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The bridge, built in 1898, was a two-hinged arch with
a latticed rib, and its span was 840 feet long, with trusses
connecting the main span to the top of each shoreline.
During this fateful week in 1938, the Niagara river bed
rose to 9 feet high, engulfing the Maid of the Mist docks and
everything else around it.
Knowing the bridge would collapse on any given day, all
vehicle traffic was halted – and the bridge collapsed the next
day, on January 27th, 1938. No fatalities occurred – except
for the fate of the bridge!
The current bridge – Rainbow Bridge – sits 500 feet north
from where the Honeymoon Bridge once stood, and was
constructed to better withstand the high winds and fierce
weather conditions.
To view a video of the collapse, please visit the Clifton Hills
website (www.cliftonhill.com) or click on this page on Silver
and Gold magazine online. •
Contractions of Multiple Words
– Courtesy Merriam Webster merriam-webster.com
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You’re probably familiar with regular contractions
made with two words like you’d and didn’t. And
you’ve probably even used contractions with three
words like she’d’ve and wouldn’t’ve.
But can we contract more than three words? More
than four? You’dn’t’ve guessed they’re possible,
but they are. Many are dialectal or regional.
Y’all’ll’ve heard them from Southerners in places
like Texas or Georgia, where they’dn’t’ve thought
twice about using them. We could’ve guessed at
more, but at some point y’all’dn’t’ve been able to
understand them anyway.