Sunday, July 17, 2011

Your Sunday Boring Postcard from Michael5000


LAKE PONCHARTRAIN CAUSEWAY,
the world's longest bridge (23.83 miles), connecting New Orleans with the highlands to the north.  It was completed in 1956, at a cost of 51 million dollars, as part of the Greater New Orleans Expressway System.  Eight miles of the bridge are out of sight of land.

Provenance: Purchased at a postcard dork trade show, April 2011.

2 comments:

UnwiseOwl said...

Most interesting boring postcard ever shown on L&T. Makes me want to go down there and drive it right now.

Elaine said...

You know, we passed up the chance when last there, and then we were so totally turned off by the changes in The Big Sleazy that we vowed never to return. So, nevermore! Well, I've sailed across the Atlantic (twice) and most of the way across the Pacific (once) and that should do....