Eastern Connecticut Photo Friday

It is ironic that this photo was taken and the post written days prior to the collapse of the Interstate 35W bridge in Minnesota. The New London Day even has a photo of the Gold Star Bridge on its cover today. But I'll stick with my original photo and post and consider it a mere coincidence. Synchronicity is too strong a word.

When we moved to Southeastern CT in 1971, we drove across the Gold Star Bridge twice trying to find the Naval Submarine Base.  You see, my husband's orders read that he would be stationed at Subase NLON.  Silly us, thinking the Submarine Base was in New London rather than Groton, CT.  At that time, the Gold Star Bridge, which was built in 1943, was a single span.  A few years later, a second steel truss bridge was added to cross the Thames River between New London and Groton.