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Throwback Thursday: A bridge toll to nowhere on Hood Canal

The toll station was ready at Washington’s Hood Canal floating bridge, but the bridge wasn’t there back in July 1960 in our Seattle Times vintage travel photo.

Trouble with Washington state’s toll bridges is nothing new.

Back in 1960, a traveler stopped to study the toll station on the east side of the still-unbridged Hood Canal. The opening of the Hood Canal floating bridge was delayed until 1961 because of fixes needed to its pontoon attachments. (Those fixes worked fine until 1979 when the bridge sank in a windstorm.)

One good thing: the 7,869-foot-long Hood Canal Bridge isn’t a toll bridge anymore.