The Gerald Desmond Bridge was named after a former Long Beach city attorney and city councilman who helped get funding to build the 5,134-foot-long bridge that connected Long Beach and Terminal Island. Desmond died of kidney cancer at the age of 48, four years before the bridge named after him was opened.
Removing the span is both one of the earliest and the most-significant step in dismantling the bridge, which has been replaced by the Long Beach International Gateway.
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