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Ninety-Second Avenue — Before the Bridges
Sal: Between Ninety-Second Avenue and Bellevue Way. Sal: Before the bridges, there were ferries. The new towns on the lake's eastern shore were first served by steamship ferries, and by 1913 the steam ferry Leschi was carrying automobiles and people between Seattle and the docks in Bellevue, Kirkland and Medina. Peggy: A car ferry to Bellevue. Imagine that as your morning commute. Sal: The original floating bridge on this road opened in 1963, as a replacement for that cross-lake ferry system. Sources: • story 494 (released) SR-520 — Hunts Point to Bellevue —…
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