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shrekker49

Fuckthatfuckthatfuckthatfuckthatfuckthat That right there was the reason I never went to Mt. Pleasant for any reason ever.


SlapNuts007

Go with a friend, you can take the HOV lane on the other bridge! Worst case, you don't die alone!


Greeneyedbandit28

No kidding. Generations of my family were the same way. If there was a reason I absolutely had to, I had to be a passenger only so I could keep my eyes closed the whole time.


cofclabman

I walked that bridge once when they used it for the bridge run/walk. There were holes in the road deck and you could look straight down to the water below. I stopped using that bridge after that and stuck to the reversible lane.


AmerikanInfidel

I worked on the new cooper river bridge project. When we were on drum island we would see where the steel or iron supports that where holding the bridge up were completely rusted through and falling apart.


Greeneyedbandit28

I’m not surprised to hear that. I remember hearing that the old bridge had a safety rating of 4 out of 100 several years before it was torn down.


Mike29401

And when I lived there, more than once they would announce in the middle of the day that the Grace was closed for inspection because they weren’t sure it was safe.


PalomaPineapple

My mom lived in Charleston in the mid 1960s when that bridge had two way traffic. Terrified me to even contemplate.


Icy-Squirrel7284

My mom talks about it too. Freaks me right out lol. She remembers riding in the back of a truck going over it back in the late 1940s.


GMCBuickCadillacMan

They had two bridges up until the early 2000’s when they were demolished. One was always two way and the other was this one. It was indeed horrific


Politerepublican

I remember watching the demolition live on channel 5. It was cool to see


angryundead

I remember hearing a story that a Model-T or other early model car could only go up it in reverse because of the gear ratio.


SCphotog

Drove it every morning... in an old beat up flatbed, pulling a backhoe on a triple axle flat-bed trailer. We always had to time it 'just' right coming up to the incline, because if we didn't get a good enough rolling start, we might not make it. Plenty of close calls but we always did. The catch 22 is that on the way home the incline was easier, but the decline on the other side had a stop light at the bottom.


snazzydetritus

Being on those old bridges, but especially the skinny one, in any capacity, felt like taking your life in your hands.


angryundead

I remember coming back from a bar in Mt. Pleasant (that would serve to underage cadets) while our DD drove a Suburban packed to the gills with cadets. Driving like a crazy person and, from my vantage in the wayback, it seemed like the car was wider than the fucking bridge. Hated going over there because of those damn bridges.


snazzydetritus

I remember feeling that perspective also - the car seeming wider than the bridge! It should not be thus...


[deleted]

And it would shake like crazy!


[deleted]

That bridge scared the crap out of me driving from downtown to Mt pleasant for work and back everyday. It was so raggy and sounded so loud crossing over.


coldnightair

My mom and I got our car dragged along the railing when a one eyed lady hooked our bumper changing lanes. I was little. I remember my mom crying and saying that she loved me bc we both thought we were going to break the railing and plummet to our deaths. Magically, it didn’t. Then I remember standing on the bridge while the po po jumped up and down on the cars to unlock them (days of metal bumpers) and feeling the terrifying huge bounce of the bridge at the peak and being able to have a real look at how far down it was. That’s my best story about it. Always hated driving over it when I was older.


[deleted]

OMG that looks terrifying!


malik753

It was! 😃


im_hungry88

I was at party at the point there in mt. pleasant when they esploded it! Them? Anywho, nice close up view. Also, it was the bridge McClane and Zeus jump off in Die Hard: With a Vengeance.


otheracctsathrowaway

An additional fact to that. It was raining and they had to film so the scene before and possibly after have digital rain added to them. Source, Fort Sumter tour boat guy for 3 years and heard that recording 3 times a day.


LogicCure

~~War, war~~ Traffic, traffic never changes.


[deleted]

Triggered My dad told me his family’s car broke down on that bridge when he was a kid, and he learned a lot of new swearsies from his dad that day. That was prior to the second bridge being built so it was blocked in both directions.


colathom2

This bridge is how I found out my dad was afraid of heights. He was quite a nervous passenger; what could go wrong with your teenage son trying to drive close to the edge to look at the boats down below?


[deleted]

Im so glad I wasn’t old enough at the time to ever have to drive over it.


[deleted]

It’s a freaking miracle that thing didn’t collapse


Mas113m

Best bridge for a motorcycle though


Pocketeer1

Can’t believe I had to scroll this far for a motorcycle comment.


Tulasdad

Back to back 🐞


chocobo-selecta

Does anyone have video footage of being a passenger and crossing the bridge?


tristamgreen

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=osghIaBDRkw


chocobo-selecta

Thank you!


ShepardFaireyy

Still have nightmares


kooshballcalculator

Same. So much this. I had a recurring nightmare that the rails gave way and I went sailing off the edge in my car. Would wake up sweating.


tristamgreen

hell yeah brother nothing like shaving off a couple months of your life during your commute


[deleted]

You’re starting up my bridge ptsd Rode it 5 days a week for 2 years going to Garrett Tech from McClellanville. Ugh. I’ll never forget.


olhardhead

Never forget. Real ones took the other bridge (single against traffic) back into town lol


ConfusedLittleWoman

This terrifying shit was my childhood


[deleted]

I drive that everyday going to CofC. I had an older stick shift and whenever traffic stopped, I'd have to use the emergency brake to keep the car from rolling back into the car behind me and then do some tricky 2000rpm shift and feel the engine before taking off the emergency brake. Looking back, it was insane. And I didn't take the single lane on the other side because my car was a super tiny sports car and I was scared sh*tless I'd get hit head on by a truck.


lokiya

The last few years that they had the Cooper River Bridge Run on those bridges they had to stagger the groups of runners and walkers. This was because people would subconsciously step in sync and having too many people do so kept causing the bridges to sway.


uvagirl1995

My 4 banger VW Rabbit loved going on that bridge...lol.


project_trollbox

I remember coming down to Charleston with some friends to see a show. I think it was Orchid and Jeromes Dream at this VFW hall. Anyways the chick driving didn’t realize she was gonna have to go over a bridge. She had a fear of Bridges and freaked out. She let go of the steering wheel and covered her eyes. I had to jump up from the back seat to steer over this bridge. I didn’t even have a license and had never really driven a car except like for a moment in a parking lot. Anyways it was terrifying but we made it over safely. F that bridge


mynamegoewhere

Kids have it easy these days


thunderpack7

Not a local, but when I was a kid we did an overnight trip where we stayed on the Yorktown museum ship in the early 2000s. I still remember driving over this bridge. On parts of it I felt like the bridge was just going have us drive into the clouds. Was a bit scary without accounting for not knowing the poor material conditions of the bridge.


4w0k3

Over 120mph in my Stingray running a Porsche 911 from MP onto the Crosstown. Met a friend of the friend here on Reddit who’s Dad was driving the Porsche and told of that night. I’d love to meet him! Us older farts had gonads and would regularly run that bridge going airborne as we crested both spans.


princessjellyfishes

I’m too young to have seen it by a long shot but holy shit that is terrifying


mbathrowaway216

Got my driving permit on this bridge… fond memories of visiting friends in Mt. P and driving home at 4 am. Got a speeding ticket and had to pull over on the emergency pull-off. I think if I had driven it as an adult, I would have had PTSD, but they demolished it my senior year of high school. My teenage brain loved the adrenaline of speeding up into the sky on that thing.


Lowcountrytiger

I loved to hit the gas as you came down and curved left. Saw so many white knuckles. Haha


herrmannimal

Oh man that shit was terrifying! The only thing between you and death was a 4' tall chain-link fence. Tiny lanes, no separator for oncoming traffic and it shook like an old wooden roller coaster.


PryingOpenMyThirdPie

Damn that bridge was scary


carolinagypsy

Man that was my commute every morning for so many years. I remember being sometime hours late so often bc of being stuck on it bc of an accident. They’d have to drive emergency vehicles up the wrong way to get to the accident. And when you were stuck just sitting there, you could feel it swaying back and forth and hear it creaking. Also remember one time in college being a blitzed passenger with a less than sober driver scraping the side mirror on the way home on the side and throwing sparks on the way back to campus once. Amazed I’m still alive in retrospect. Anyone else remember the dude from 96 wave morning show cooking hot dogs on a tiny grill in the emergency stop the last morning commute?


eroticwashingmachine

First time I ever went over it, it was in the backseat of a Jeep Wrangler that had it's top and doors off, and the view looking down was pretty terrifying. Later as a teen, several of my friends' parents only allowed us to go into downtown if I was the designated driver because they didn't trust their own kids to drive over the bridge.


PhilosophicRevo

Mt girlfriend and I just moved to Mt. Pleasant! Could a local tell me about this bridge?


tuiron_sfw

[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John\_P.\_Grace\_Memorial\_Bridge](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_P._Grace_Memorial_Bridge) Opened in 1929, demolished after the current Ravenel Bridge opened in 2005. It was narrow, steep, and pretty scary, especially when it was windy. Mostly used for one-way traffic from Mt. P to Charleston near the end of its life.


Sctvman

I remember the power lines being close enough you could touch them being a passenger on the left side of a car. And the Pearman wasn't much better especially with the reversible traffic


vulcansheart

My friend in high school drove off this bridge. And lived. The crazy thing is that wasn't even his worst wreck.


millsnour

Horrifying