Harvard Bridge
About Harvard Bridge
Harvard Bridge, also known locally as the Massachusetts Avenue Bridge and "Mass. Ave." Bridge, is a steel haunched girder bridge carrying Massachusetts Avenue over the Charles River and connecting Back Bay, Boston with Cambridge, Massachusetts. At 2,164.8 feet, it is the longest bridge over the Charles River.
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The police department in Cambridge, Massachusetts requested that when the Harvard Bridge between Cambridge and Boston was refurbished in the 1980s, the graffiti on it was maintained by the people who created it because it became useful in identifying where accidents were on the bridge. They would say by the penis. It was quite nerdy graffiti, to be honest.
from 75: No Such Thing As Diarrhoea Drive, 2015-08-21 at 00:18:40 · read transcript
Other times Harvard Bridge came up
This was his whole world. There's a unit of measurement that is named after him called the Smoot. The Smoot is the length of him, which is five feet seven inches. It's to measure a specific bridge, the Harvard Bridge. We know that it is 364.4 Smoots. That is how they know. When you go across this bridge, it has how many Smoots you've walked across.
300: No Such Thing As Swimming In The Sky, 2019-12-20 · listen
Smoot and he was the chairman of the American National Standards Institute and the president of the international organization for standardization. This was his whole world and there's a unit of measurement that is named after him called the Smoot. The Smoot is the length of him, which is five feet seven inches. It's to measure a specific bridge, the Harvard Bridge. We know that it is 364.4 smutes. That is how they know.
No Such Thing As Swimming In The Sky, 2019-12-20 · listen
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Coordinates: 42.3546, -71.0913