Walking to School on the Swinging Bridge

ID: 1343 ~ Source: Malone-Mayes, Vivienne Lucille, interviewed by Rebecca M. Sharpless, August 5, 1987, in Waco, Texas. Baylor University Institute for Oral History, Waco, TX. View the full interview
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Vivienne Malone-Mayes tells about how the Waco Suspension Bridge would swing when a large amount of students walked across it in the 1940s.

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