Watch The Middle Thorofare Drawbridge Open

Have you seen the Middle Thorofare Drawbridge open before. For those who don't know. The Middle Thorofare Bridge Drawbridge is the bridge Southern of Wildwood Crest (Near Two Mile Landing).
We recorded four different vantage points of the bridge opening.
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We use to call it “the 50 cent bridge”... the toll at the time in the ‘90’s

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Engineering marvel. The george redding bridge.
According to an article published in The Wildwood Leader in 1950, construction on the new bridge did not begin until several years after the war, when in 1948, Commissioner J. Spencer Miller sent a state dredger to the area, and the project had begun. By this time, however, the cost estimate for the new bridge had almost tripled to one million dollars, and by the time the final work was completed two years later, another million was needed.
The bridge was completed and dedicated on July 27, 1950, ten years after it was originally conceived. Although Senator Anthony Cafiero was largely responsible for securing the passage of the appropriations bill that funded the final phase of construction, it was former New Jersey Senator George A. Redding for whom the bridge was named.
Redding’s long political career began in North Wildwood when he helped organize the Angelsea Fire Company in 1902. That was one year before the first bridge was built across Grassy Sound from Rio Grande. In the years that followed, he held positions as Municipal Clerk of the Borough of Wildwood, Chief of Police in North Wildwood City, and Sheriff of Cape May County. In 1926, he was elected mayor of North Wildwood, and he held that position for twenty years (until 1949). In 1945, he was elected to the State Senate where he served as both senator and North Wildwood mayor concurrently until 1948.
Redding attended the dedication of the bridge which bears his name, and he assisted in the ribbon cutting along with Senator Cafiero, New Jersey Governor Alfred E. Driscoll and Wildwood Mayor George Busfield

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This video is not the George Redding Bridge. That bridge is on Rio Grande Avenue.
This video shows the Middle Thorofare Bridge which connects Wildwood Crest to Cape May