Entry/Object ID
110.44.496Description
Photograph. Carlyon Bridge, part of Highway 99, through Tumwater, linking Portland OR and Seattle WA. The bridge was completed in 1938 and has decorative cast-concrete totem poles at each end. The poles were originally plain concrete, but Peter G. Schmidt Sr. later had them painted in bright colors.
Typed on back of photo: "Totem pole at Highway 99 made of concrete. There are two at each end of Bridge. Few people ever noticed them but I recently had them painted (Olympia Brewing Company paid for it, altho I had intended to do it.) Now dozens of people stop, come back and take photos of the Totems which are very good and in their new bright colors are points of great interest and remembered landmarks."Name/Title
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