My great, great grandfather built this back in 1898. Unfortunately, he recently passed and left it to me. It's pretty unique in it's design being a cable lift bascule bridge, it uses counter weights to raise and lower. It was cutting edge technology back then but is currently in dis repair due to an overweight truck driving over it. Well, the truck damage led us to finding more structural damage which my grandfather secured a contract to have repaired to the tune of about 1.5M. I'm looking to get rid of the bridge which has significantly higher value when you consider the potential in making it a toll bridge and all of the summertime traffic $$$. Willing to let it go for the amount my grandfather paid to the construction company for repairs. So 1.5M takes it.
I think it would be reasonable to add what you need 1.5M for.... Like curing an ailing neighbor from some rare decease or something, you know... to really pluck those heart strings and hopefully persuade some elderly lady from Belgium to give you 1.8M, cause you're just the nicest person... In your case 3rd nicest person.
NCDOT will give you 1.5 if you put it next to the Bonner bridge and find a way to bypass all the environmentalists lawsuits.
Dude I'm a gonna miss that ol bridge... Many many many memories driving over it in route to inlet. My wife parents life down the street from there so in the summer before we where married we would bike across too... So your old pop built that thing??? You know they guy who operated it? I'm a gonna miss that ol bridge- if you need a place to store that ol bridge until you sell it- it should fit nicely into my back yard... Anyone else have any memories of the ol bridge? One time I sailed thru there - was gonna buy this sail boat from a guy in the glimmer glass- the guy who was selling it was your average pirate - peg leg and all
