Comments on: 14th St Pedestrian Bridge https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/ Offbeat Adventures - Lost & Forgotten Places - A Slice of History - Connections & Comparisons - The Beer Parlour Project🍺 Tue, 09 Sep 2025 13:49:29 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34179 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:25:18 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34179 In reply to Alvin Bomediano.

Haha, it scared a lot of people.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34178 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:24:52 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34178 In reply to Connie Biggart.

Everyone who lived north of the river remembers!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34177 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:24:13 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34177 In reply to Barry Evans.

Cool!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34176 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:24:04 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34176 In reply to George A. Burns.

Strange how that is…

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34175 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:23:44 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34175 In reply to Jason Paul Sailer.

You could see it had taken a couple good hits from overheight trucks and survived, so yes to that.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34174 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:22:45 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34174 In reply to Amber Misner.

The thought of tripping down those stairs was the most worrisome for us.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34173 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:21:55 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34173 In reply to Alvin Bomediano.

I know they take all the fun away!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34172 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:21:38 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34172 In reply to Greg Manz.

Crossing it in January was to know sheer terror! Okay, I’m exaggerating a little.

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34171 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:19:43 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34171 In reply to Mark White.

Yikes!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34170 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:19:27 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34170 In reply to Dale Humeston.

Oh wow!

]]> By: Chris Doering https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34169 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 21:18:58 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34169 In reply to Steve Beggs.

Everyone who’s crossed it remembers!

]]> By: Alvin Bomediano https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34165 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 05:46:43 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34165 Lived in Cedarbrae Apartments 2 blocks away. Never trusted that bridge; would deter down to 5th. 

]]> By: Connie Biggart https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34159 Fri, 11 Jun 2021 00:59:54 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34159 Remember it as a kid.

]]> By: Barry Evans https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34162 Thu, 10 Jun 2021 22:00:42 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34162 I used to walk that bridge daily when I was in elementary school.

]]> By: George A. Burns https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34168 Thu, 10 Jun 2021 21:08:59 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34168 We lived on the corner of 14th and 8th Ave until about 1979. Me and my brother use to cross the street going Hillhurst Elementary on the green overpass every day. Although I don’t live in Calgary anymore, every time I drove on 14th and saw that overpass I always smiled. As silly as it sounds I think next time I am in Calgary and I it see it gone I will probably miss it.

]]> By: Jason Paul Sailer https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34160 Thu, 10 Jun 2021 18:05:20 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34160 What a brute!

]]> By: Amber Misner https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34158 Thu, 10 Jun 2021 17:48:22 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34158 Looks creepy!

]]> By: Alvin Bomediano https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34164 Thu, 10 Jun 2021 15:07:21 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34164 Calgary is a little less exciting now.

]]> By: Greg Manz https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34166 Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:19:08 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34166 That thing was a nightmare. I was scared ****less the last time I used that thing.

]]> By: Mark White https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34167 Thu, 10 Jun 2021 14:08:29 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34167 I witnessed a guy in a big old station wagon lose control while going down the hill and crash into that thing in the early 1970’s.
I’ll never forget his moans and screams as the fire crew extricated him from the wreckage. 

]]> By: Dale Humeston https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34163 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 21:07:02 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34163 My brother, Jim Rankin, was hit by a car in that location in the fall of 1958 which was the impetus for building that overpass. Kind of sorry to see that it’s gone but the reasoning is sound. Brother Jim survived, by the way. 

]]> By: Steve Beggs https://www.bigdoer.com/44843/short-subjects/14th-st-pedestrian-bridge/#comment-34161 Wed, 09 Jun 2021 17:55:09 +0000 https://www.bigdoer.com/?p=44843#comment-34161 I can agree, I had some appointments at the old Grace Hospital a few years ago and I took transit to get there and back and I remember that bridge. 

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