Coronado Bridge
Curving concrete span towering over the bay, its pillars covered in vivid Chicano movement murals.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Coronado Bridge in San Diego starts with an odd design failure: the span was built two hundred feet high so Navy aircraft carriers could pass beneath it, and even that turned out not to be enough. It traces architect Robert Mosher's workaround, the long curving ramp that became the bridge's signature shape, then drops to the pillars below, where a 1970 standoff between Barrio Logan residents and city bulldozers changed what the land underneath would become. You'll hear about Victor Ochoa and the other artists who started climbing scaffolding against those pillars a few years later. Look up at the murals as you pass beneath the span.
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