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Collapse of the Tacoma Narrow Bridge.

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Toyota Tacoma 4x4 vz 350z Tags Say 1/8th irwindale track. That is why the tacoma can keep up

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Watch the amazing "Gallopin' Gertie" November 7, 1940 video clip. 1940 Tacoma Narrows Bridge Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. The third longest suspension span in the world opened on July 1st. Only four months later, the great span's short life ended in disaster. "Galloping Gertie," collapsed in a windstorm on November 7,1940. The bridge became famous as "the most dramatic failure in bridge engineering history." Now, it's also "one of the world's largest man-made reefs." The sunken remains of Galloping Gertie were placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1992 to protect her from salvagers. A dramatic tale of failure and success The story of the failure of the 1940 Narrows Bridge and the success of the Current Narrows Bridge is a great American saga. When Galloping Gertie splashed into Puget Sound, it created ripple effects across the nation and around the world. The event changed forever how engineers design suspension bridges. Gertie's failure led to the safer suspension spans we use today.

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Some of the footage in this is pre collapse and is hard to find. It gives you an idea why it was named Galloping Gertie since Transverse waves were visible along the span

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Newsreel footage from the Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collpase. She was already known to move up in down in the wind, but in 1940, she began to oscillate due to resonance and would eventually collapse

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Color video of the The Narrows Tacoma Bridge Disaster of 1940. Before asking questions, please visit this wiki article, which has a lot of information on its collapse and why it happened: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacoma_Bridge#Galloping_Gertie

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Commercial for Toyota's Tacoma pickup involving a meteor impact. Yep, it's the famous "meteor hits truck" video but without the end cut off. The burning peice of wreckage falling out of the sky near the end was the dirt bike that was in the back of the truck. Toyota has a bunch of other commercials their trucks surviving weird things.

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http://www.edmunds.com/insideline/do/Drives/Comparos/articleId=107904 In this Midsize Truck Comparison Test, Inside Line puts the Nissan Frontier up against the Toyota Tacoma to see who reigns supreme in the segment.

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Protesters tear-gassed several times in Tacoma while opposing shipments of military equipment to Iraq. Confrontations had happened all night long between protesters and riot police. As you can see here, the police decided to gas everyone while they sung Give Peace A Chance. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G63FEamhpA0&mode=related&search= That video shows what police had said after a protest in Miami. It might help explain totalitarian police mentality and why they shot at protesters in Tacoma. No barricades were thrown, as police claim. A response video was made to police, in fact: watch it here: http://youtube.com/watch?v=z-w7g_8ZCYU

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October 2007 TV commercial for the Toyota Tacoma featuring the truck inside a World of Warcraft game.

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Toyota Tacoma Truck TV Ad

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TACOMA WASHINGTON OCTOBER 6, 2007 An explosion heard miles away sent a ball of fire over the historic Atlas Foundry Saturday afternoon, shutting down a major highway and cutting power to the city's industrial area. Four people were taken to a hospital - the driver of a propane truck and three employees of the foundry - after two propane tanks exploded around 3 p.m., said The News Tribune newspaper. The driver of the propane truck was airlifted to Harborview Medical Center in Seattle, where spokeswoman Susan Gregg-Hanson said he was in critical condition Saturday evening. The three other injured men were listed in stable condition at St. Joseph Medical Center in Tacoma. UPDATE: The initial explosion happened while a delivery truck loaded with about 8,000 gallons of propane exploded at Atlas Castings and Technology near the intersection of Interstate 5 and State Highway 16 around 3 p.m. Saturday. Witnesses reported hearing the blast as far as 10 to 15 miles away. An electrical substation was damaged in the blast, knocking out electricity to about 13,000 Tacoma Power homes and businesses. A large two-axle portion of the tanker truck blew more than 150 feet into the air and landed in flames on the Highway 16 overpass, along with parts of the truck cab and other debris. The truck driver, identified as Charles McDonald, 64. Propane truck driver from Atlas explosion dies The News Tribune October 14th, 2007 The propane delivery driver who was burned over 75 percent of his body in the explosion at the Atlas foundry died this morning... Charles "Chuck" McDonald, 64, survived for about a week after the Oct. 6 explosion, but hadn't communicated with his wife, daughter and son during that time. An attorney for the family had said he was medically paralyzed and breathing only with the aid of a respirator... something went horribly wrong causing his 8,000-gallon tanker truck to explode... the hose or connection between McDonald's truck and the larger, stationary tanks suffered a "catastrophic failure" and the escaping gas was ignited by a furnace inside the nearby foundry. BLEVE

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Tacoma bridge disaster

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Toyota commercial using World of Warcraft.

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La causa de la destrucción del Puente de Tacoma

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The Tacoma Narrows Bridge nicknamed Galloping Gertie collapsed due to vibration caused by high winds. The suspension bridge on Puget Sound had only been open to traffic for a few months. www.itnsource.com

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The famous Tacoma Narrows Bridge disaster.

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This documentary took second place at Nationals in National History Day 2007 in the junior group division. The theme was Tragedy and Triumph.

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Tacoma Redd live at Call the Office for Gut Rock

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This is a real Bridge. It was built knowing there was a stronger model available. But it was budget driven. It only lasted for 4 months, and then they built the stronger model anyway.

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Another angle of the "Give Peace a Chance" police riot.

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The first group of protesters were arrested for not relinquishing their backpacks. The second group crossed over the barricades and were taken into custody.

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Blake's 3-minute beatbox solo at his hometown show at the Tacoma Dome, 7/27/07.

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A potentially dangerous problem has been found with some 2007 Toyota Tacoma trucks, but one local owner has had trouble getting the automaker to address the problem, according to a Call 3 consumer investigation conducted in conjunction with WSMV TV in Nashville, Tenn.

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