Opened to Public

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This file appears in: Maestri Bridge
Opened to Public

Published the day that the bridge opened to public, the photographs depict the bridge essentially completed. Toll charges were initially $1.25 plus a ten-cent state tax and a ten-cent per extra passenger charge.

Courtesy of The Times-Picayune

This file appears in: Maestri Bridge

By Graham Cooper
The first bridge built across the Pontchartrain was the Watson-Williams Toll Bridge, also known as the Five-Mile Bridge and now the Maestri Bridge; the Louisiana Highway Commission approved its construction in 1925.