This mystery photo may be impossible, so we’ll tell you it’s in Columbia. But where specifically is it? Send your name, hometown and guess to: feedback@statehousereport.com.
Our most recent mystery, “Open bridge,” shows the Ashley River Memorial Bridge in Charleston, which Allan Peel of San Antonio, Texas, describes as “a one-way double-leaf bascule bridge (drawbridge) that carries southbound Savannah Highway traffic across the Ashley River from Spring Street in downtown Charleston to U.S. Highway 17 and St. Andrews Boulevard in West Ashley. Originally built in 1926, it is 1,733 feet long, 34.1 feet wide, with the longest span stretching 158.1 feet across. It was the first permanent bridge to connect Charleston and West Ashley and contributed greatly to the mobility of people living in the area at the time.”
Others correctly identifying the photo were: Lester Dempsey, Wayne Beam of Clemson; Steve Willis of Lancaster; David Lupo of Mount Pleasant; Bill Segars and Don Clark, both of Hartsville; Nancy Barksdale of Columbia; George Graf of Palmyra, Va.; Curtis Joyner of Charleston; and Truett Jones of Summerton.
- Send us a mystery picture. If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: feedback@statehousereport.com and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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