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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Joshua Lemons, post: 24601988, member: 82388&quot;]My local area has little in the ways of numismatic history.&nbsp; Though, there do exist some rather scarce national bank notes.&nbsp; So, for local coin related items I often have to turn to exomunia.</p><p>The Ohio river bridge at Cairo, IL is about a twenty minutes drive from my house.&nbsp; I&#039;ve traversed the structure hundreds of times, whether to buy alcohol (before our city went wet), to the yearly trips to Missouri to get fireworks for Independence Day.</p><p>The bridge was constructed between 1936-38, opening in the fall of that final year. </p><p>Plans are for the bridge to be demolished soon and replaced by a new wider bridge as the existing bridge is very narrow with an extremely tight turn to navigate getting on the Kentucky side.</p><p>Pictured is a wooden nickel souvenir from the celebration of the opening of the bridge.&nbsp; From what I gather, it was a big ordeal! </p><p>[ATTACH=full]1563050[/ATTACH] [ATTACH=full]1563051[/ATTACH][/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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