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)
“Each morning the manager of this gallery substituted some new picture, distinguished by more brilliant or harmonious coloring, for the old upon the walls.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)