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What happened to the first Tacoma Narrows Bridge?

They never built it.
It was started, but they never finished building it.
It collapsed.
Money ran out, so they abandoned the project.

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The first Tacoma Narrows Bridge opened to traffic on July 1, 1940. Its main span collapsed into the Tacoma Narrows four months later on November 7, 1940, at 11:00 a.m. (Pacific time) as a result of aeroelastic flutter caused by a 42 mph (68 km/h) wind. ... No human lives were lost in the collapse of the bridge.
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