Aerial photograph of construction on the new Expressway Bridge. In this photograph, the bridge is near completion. After nine years of planning and construction, including the removal and demolition of homes and other buildings in its path, the expressway was finally finished in 1954. The expressway was a controlled-access highway between East Cuyahoga Falls Avenue to the north and Perkins Street to the south. The section cost $9 million to build, and included a 1,500 foot long bridge over the Little Cuyahoga Valley. The gray, truss-style bridge cost $3 million alone.
Akron Beacon Journal Photograph Archives
