Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapse Gallopin Gertie

Watch the amazing Gallopin Gertie November 7, 1940 film clip. 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st. Only four months later, the great span s short life ended in disaster. Galloping Gertie, collapsed in a windstorm on November 7, 1940. The bridge became famous as the most dramatic failure in bridge engineering histor