00:00It was originally named the Delaware River Bridge.
00:031,750-foot main span set the record for the world's largest suspension bridge when it was completed, as you
00:09would imagine, July 1, 1926.
00:12So that's when it was finished, and that's when the anniversary is, the 100-year anniversary coming up.
00:16The opening brought crowds to the riverfront in Camden and Philadelphia.
00:20At the time, everyone's going to go see the bridge.
00:22The 25-cent toll fare was collected.
00:27Everyone loves looking at the bridge.
00:28It goes over the water so your car won't get wet.
00:33Oh, it was to keep your car from getting wet.
00:35Who wants a wet automobile in this day and age?
00:37And if you're sitting in the rumble seat, you could drown.
00:39Thank God for the bridge.
00:41By the way, the 25-cent toll fare was collected in both directions back then.
00:45Give us money.
00:46People could cross the bridge on horseback for 15 cents.
00:51And the bridge was renamed the Ben Franklin Bridge not till 1956.
00:57Again, I would have thought that was earlier.
00:58Yeah.
00:59It was to honor the founding statesman and to differentiate the span from the Walt Whitman Bridge.
01:06As many know, he often did not wear pants.
01:09Which was completed between South Philly and Gloucester City in 1957.
01:17South Philly and Gloucester City in 1957.
01:18South Philly and Gloucester City in 1957.
01:21South Philly and Gloucester City in 1957.
01:21South Philly and Gloucester City in 1957.
01:21South Philly and Gloucester City in 1957.
01:22South Philly and Gloucester City in 1957.
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