Changing the face of Charleston : The unbuilding of the Grace and Pearman Bridges
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February 8, 2006: For Grace, the end is near

The end of the Grace roadway is near - tonight about 10pm. Pio, Michael, Sonny and Steve by day and Richie, Jackie, Rich and Scott by night have been unpouring the concrete road surface of the Grace bridge.

Only about 75 feet remain

This is Grace's skeleton

Sonny is busy removing the last of the guard rails

Cutting away -

But all these machines eat fuel like there was no tomorrow - here is Anthony filling Michael's machine. Somehow, the human machines were left unfed.

and this is the real Anthony - all business

Michael, of course

and Sonny pushing a couple of the last sections of roadway down to the Coleman Recycle Center

The last view of the underside of Grace

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