Coos Bay McCullough Bridge (#1119)

Like so many other engineering projects from the 1930's, I was impressed by the level of aesthetic detail and concern for multiple uses. This is a pedestrian access point for the bridge. See description of bridge with #1118.

This access point was in a largely empty set of two parks surrounding the southern access to the bridge. One of the parks contained quite a bit of open space while the other was largely woods, both seemed quite pleasant and thus surprisingly unused. Considering that I had seen a fair number of homeless and displaced folk in various parts of the Coos Bay area, I expected to encounter some using this park as a resting area, but did not. I quickly discovered why – after exploring the parks for a few minutes, I came back to my car and found the police parked about 50 feet away, looking over at my car (they’ve probably run my license plate #). I had my camera in my hand, waved, and went about looking for shots of the bridge, which I guess was enough to convince them I wasn’t up to something, since they drove away.