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A souvenir brochure from the Main Avenue Bridge opening on October 6, 1939. The pamphlet provides a history of the area around the bridge, the bridge's construction, and the key people involved in the construction process.

Downtown Cleveland.

The Main Avenue Bridge, also known as the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway Bridge, opened in October 1939. Today it still stretches across the Flats and the Cuyahoga River. Built with help of funds from the Works Progress Administration and renovated in…

Main Avenue Bridge over the Cuyahoga River. Also known as the Cleveland Memorial Shoreway Bridge, it opened in October 1939. Today it still stretches across the Flats and the Cuyahoga River. Built with help of funds from the Works Progress…

The bridge connects Detroit Avenue on Cleveland's west side with Superior Avenue near downtown. Streetcars once used the bridge's subway tunnel opening, visible in the foreground. The tunnel runs in front of the Rockefeller Building, which is the…

The recently rehabilitated (1983) Hope Memorial Bridge runs over the Cuyahoga River. The Detroit-Superior and Main Avenue Bridges are in the background stretching towards downtown Cleveland.

Main Avenue Bridge, view looking south towards the Detroit-Superior Bridge (Veteran's Memorial Bridge). Shooter's is visible to the right.

The Main Avenue Bridge, completed in 1939, runs across the Cuyahoga River.

The Main Avenue Bridge twists its way over the Flats and the Cuyahoga River towards downtown, the old Municipal Stadium, and Burke Lakefront Airport. To its south is the Detroit-Superior (Veteran's Memorial) Bridge, next to which RTA's rapid transit…

The Detroit Superior Bridge, also known as the Veteran's Memorial Bridge, runs over the Cuyahoga River in the lower right of the photo while the Main Avenue Bridge is located to the north. Detroit Superior connects downtown with the west side. …