Remember when the bridge used to be black?
From the back of the card:
- THE AMBASSADOR BRIDGE, connecting Windsor,
Ontario, Canada and Detroit, Michigan, is the largest
International Bridge in the world (nearly two miles
long). From the centre of the four-lane bridge, visitors
can stop and take pictures of the two cities, or of the
passing ships on the Detroit River.
The Teal is hideous, and here’s hoping if there’s another paint job, it goes back to black.
Man,that’s refeshing. I hate the Teal as well. For some reason, I’ve had trouble actually picturing it in my head as black even though I grew up with it like that.
Seems much more natural to the bridge this way.
Thanks, Andrew!
oh wow.. i like that much better!!
The teal has always looked like a primer to me, it looks like its waiting for a final coat of black paint.
I believe the Teal was picked partly because the colour was somewhat less appealing to the starlings that would nest there.
>From the centre of the four-lane bridge, visitors
> can stop and take pictures of the two cities, or of the
> passing ships on the Detroit River.
and get run over by the procession of big trucks heading over!
The Teal was applied to be able to spot the rust easier. That job wasn’t without incident though. R.I.P. to Jamie Barker, lost his life when the scaffolding wheels failed, forcing him to fall with the structure to the river. One of my cousin’s was part of the few who were left hanging from the bridge by his lanyard in the cold winds… What a mess that was.
Missing an ‘S’ in the title there, Andrew!
I heard that teal was chosen because it was the cheapest paint to buy in that quantity.
It’s a good thing Windsor/Detroit isn’t home to too many other world famous landmarks – if the Statue Of Liberty was here, it’d probably be painted orange by now.
Thanks Carl! Don’t know how I missed that!
Nort a fan of teal but I would rather that colour than black. The black just looked moross.
I think the flat black was stern and classic…..like a tuxedo
You may like to know that it was my Father in Law Roy Lancaster(president of the Bridge Company) that worked tirelessly for 10 years to get the necklace lighting done (Nov 1981).
Matt Revington, I’ve thought the same. It’s like “OK, they’re done priming it, now for the final coat.”
Unfortunately, I don’t remember the bridge being black. When did it happen?