Slender, elegant and graceful, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge stretched like a steel ribbon across Puget Sound in 1940. Some of the footage in this is pre-collapse and gives you an idea why it was named Galloping Gertie.
This video shows the final minute of a 17 minutes long great fireworks that finished the celebration of dedication of the new built bridge to the island "Rügen" in north-east Germany on October 20th, 2007