The small harbor town of Gig Harbor, population 7,000, makes for a pleasant scene on this sunny day.
Located on Puget Sound west of Tacoma, it was incorporated in 1946. Prior to the completion of a bridge across Puget Sound at the Tacoma Narrows, Gig Harbor was accessed from Tacoma by ferry. The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge, "Galloping Gertie", collapsed in November 1940 after four months of operations. A replacement bridge wasn't built until 1950. In 2007 a second bridge was added which allows for well over 120,000 vehicles a day to cross Puget Sound here.
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