Crowds gather for morning bridge implosion.
More than 100 people showed up in front of Brews Brothers on River Road to watch the demolition of the Eighth Street Bridge at noon Thursday.
Kids perched on the top of their parents’ shoulders to watch the 110-year-old steel bridge eat the concrete causeway below it while others snapped photos and swapped stories about how many car mirrors they lost to the narrow structure.
Before the bridge was detonated, state Department of Transportation spokesman James May asked the crowd to count down from 10, and cheer as requested by the television cameras.
A siren signalled the 2-minute warning. A couple of quick booms later and the bridge was gone, ready to be scrapped.
