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Last week’s photo showed the bridge at the mouth of the John Day River after the Christmas Flood of 1964. The footings collapsed in the flood. At least one car went over the edge before the bridge was closed, remembered Gary Conley. This was labeled Oregon’s single biggest loss from the flood.

This photo ran in The Dalles Chronicle in May 1965 and shows anchored barges carrying construction equipment for the repair of the “Highway 80N” bridge. The new structure “couldn’t stand the torrent because one of the piers was not founded on bedrock,” read the caption.