The Lorain-Carnegie Bridge got a renovation in the 1980s workers cleaned the statues with 4,000 pounds of black walnut shells. Porter-who was dealing with a scandal where he wrote an insulting letter, to a little girl, filled with misspellings that called residents of one neighborhood “moochers, scroungers, chiselers and parasites”-was voted out of office that year and later convicted of forcing his subordinates to kick back two percent of their salaries to him. The bridge was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1976. It turns out people thought there was something historic about them. We're not running a May Show here.” (The May Show is an annual art contest for Northeast Ohio artists.)
“There is nothing particularly historic about any one of them. “Those columns are monstrosities and should be torn down and forgotten,” he said. About 50 years after they were built Cuyahoga county engineer Albert Porter called them an eyesore and planned to tear them down in order to widen the bridge. Either way, over the 40-plus years after the bridge was built they had become covered with soot from steel mills, sulfur from coal furnaces, and car emissions. They are often called the “Guardians of Transportation”-but they are officially named the Guardians of Traffic, Case Western Reserve professor John Grabowski said in 2018. The Lorain-Carnegie Bridge is no ordinary bridge: The pylons are carved into Art Deco masterpieces, the type of art you see on buildings from the 1930s. It wasn’t until the 1970s that it became a local cause célèbre. Felgate would just have the barricades removed keeping traffic off the bridge, which connects Lorain Avenue on Cleveland’s west with Carnegie Avenue to the east. “No ceremony is planned,” a United Press report noted at the time.
The Lorain–Carnegie Bridge opened on Decemwithout any fanfare.
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