{"id":14399,"date":"2013-11-18T03:56:25","date_gmt":"2013-11-18T11:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=14399"},"modified":"2013-11-18T03:57:37","modified_gmt":"2013-11-18T11:57:37","slug":"marvelous-vincent-thomas-bridge-a-vital-link","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/marvelous-vincent-thomas-bridge-a-vital-link\/","title":{"rendered":"Marvelous Vincent Thomas Bridge-A Vital Link"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/vincentb.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By C. MacDonald<\/p>\n<p>SAN PEDRO&#8211;The spectacular Vincent Thomas Bridge is the &#8220;Official Welcoming Monument&#8221; to Los Angeles. The suspension bridge daily welcomes thousands of people to LA\u2019s major seaport district of San Pedro as well as the port.<\/p>\n<p>The 4-lane, 2.2 mile bridge, whose towers rise 35 stories above LA&#8217;s Harbor, replaced ferry service between San Pedro and Terminal Island in 1963.<\/p>\n<p>The longtime dream of its namesake, Assemblyman Vincent Thomas, who championed its creation over decades, became reality as the first welded (not riveted) suspension bridge in the United States. It&#8217;s also the only such structure in the world supported entirely on piles. Nearly 1,000 piles were sunk to hold it up.<\/p>\n<p>But the first thing people notice, during the day, is its magnificent &#8220;green&#8221; color. It takes more than 1,000 gallons of green paint<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/bridges\/vincent-thomas-bridge.html\">&#8230;read more<\/a>&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By C. MacDonald SAN PEDRO&#8211;The spectacular Vincent Thomas Bridge is the &#8220;Official Welcoming Monument&#8221; to Los Angeles. The suspension bridge daily welcomes thousands of people to LA\u2019s major seaport district of San Pedro as well as the port. The 4-lane, 2.2 mile bridge, whose towers rise 35 stories above LA&#8217;s Harbor, replaced ferry service between [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}