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There was no bridge like this anywhere else on earth. that bridge that eads built, it took seven years to built. it cost $10 million, which you can think of in today's dollars as basically the price to go to mars, plus a bag of chips. but they did it. and on the fourth of july in 1874, on the day the united states of america turned 98 years old, the eads bridge opened up to bridge st. louis across the mississippi. to bridge st. louis and missouri to the rest of the country. to bridge st. louis to the railroads. for a nickel, they would even let you walk across it. that bridge is still there to...

Well, that bridge is still there today. still in use. you can still take the train across or drive across it. you can still walk across it if you want to. although there are no more tolls so if you walk it now, you can keep your nickel. the eads bridge has since been designated a national landmark, a living, working monument to the ingenuity and the effort and the expense that it took to literally bridge that divide across the mississippi between missouri and illinois on the far bank. and now that bridge, the eads bridge, is about to become a lifeline again for a reason that feels both very, v...