After all the photos I took, I've tried to arrange them in some order based on various topics I found interesting.
And a reminder from T.S. Eliot (East Coker from the Four Quartets)
Old men ought to be explorers Here and there does not matter We must be still and still moving Into another intensity For a further union, a deeper communion
David Wertz was my guide on many visits to the bridge and shared with me much of the construction details that I have included in these pages. When David did not know the answer to a question, he always provide a link to other sources of information. So, without David and his colleagues at SCDOT, these web pages would have been limited to my weekly trips to the SC Aquarium.
David appears in many disguises - here as the parking attendent at the west pylon dock
Here he is on one of his inspection trips
Here he is, inspecting the gap to determine whether the splice girder is long enough
Here he is measuring the gap.
And here he is, after looking at what he just measured
After a year of interacting with David - he is off to San Diego with
his new wife. David has done so much to open back doors for me so that
I could explore the inside-the-skunk-works part of precision building.
A big thanks from Frank to David.
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C. Frank Starmer