Tourist attraction
Pennybacker Bridge Overlook
Weathering-steel through-arch span with sweeping lake and hill-country views from a scenic overlook.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Pennybacker Bridge overlook in Austin follows Percy Pennybacker Junior, a Texas Highway Department engineer who spent his career pushing welded steel over bolted rivets, including the state's first all-welded bridge in Dallas. You will hear how that fight saved Texas millions, decades before this span over Lake Austin was ever built. It leaves an odd question over the overlook: what does it take to get your name on a bridge you never touched.
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