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LA River Bridges.Pdf PARA NIÑOS SPANNING HISTORY GUÍA A KIDS’ GUIDE TO THE HISTORIC BRIDGES OF LOS ANGELES KIDS’ GUIDE ALCANZANDO LA HISTORIA UNA GUÍA PARA NIÑOS A LOS PUENTES HISTÓRICOS DE LOS ANGELES BRIDGE / PUENTE B I N G O ALCANZANDO LA HISTORIA LOS PUENTES DEL RÍO DE LOS ANGELES SPANNING HISTORY THE BRIDGES OF THE LOS ANGELES RIVER Riverside–Zoo Drive Heron / Garza Sixth Street Light / Luz Glendale-Hyperion Frieze / Friso Pylon / Torre Seventh Street Fletcher Drive River Cat / Gato del río Fish / Pescado North Main Street Frog / Rana Arch / Arco North Spring Street Riverside–Figueroa Street First Street Washington Boulevard César Chávez/Macy Street Pigeon / Paloma Pier / Pilón North Broadway Olympic Boulevard Balustrade / Balaustre Fourth Street As you explore the bridges, keep an eye out for the Mientras vas explorando los puentes, mantén un ojo abierto details pictured above. When you spot one, mark the para espiar los detalles ilustrados aquí arriba. Cuando small white box in the corner of that picture. encuentres uno de ellos, marca la cajilla blanca en la esquina See how many you can find. If you find one in each de esa imagen. Mira a ver cuántos puedes encontrar. column, yell “BINGO!” Si encuentras uno en cada columna, grita, “¡BINGO!” 101 5 q 134 ZOO DR LA ZOO SAN FERNANDO RD CR 5 YSTA RÍO DE LOS GRIFFITH GOLDEN ST L SPRINGS DR P Historic Bridges Spanning ARK DR AT ANGELES the Los Angeles River E FW Y Los puentes históricos sobre GRIFFITH el río de Los Angeles PARK LA RIVER RIVERSIDE–ZOO DRIVE BRIDGE (1938) VD 1 PUENTE DE RIVERSIDE–ZOO DRIVE ALE BL RIVERSIDE DR GLEND 2 2 GLENDALE-HYPERION VIADUCT (1929) VIADUCTO DE GLENDALE-HYPERION w E FLETCHER DR AV FLETCHER DRIVE BRIDGE (1927) e 3 PUENTE DE FLETCHER DRIVE HYPERION VD SAN FERNANDO RD 4 RIVERSIDE–FIGUEROA STREET BRIDGE (1927/1939) PUENTE DE RIVERSIDE–FIGUEROA STREET BL ALE GLEND ALE FWY NORTH BROADWAY–BUENA VISTA BRIDGE (1911) GLEND 5 5 PUENTE DE NORTH BROADWAY–BUENA VISTA RIVERSIDE DR NORTH SPRING STREET VIADUCT (1929) A ST 6 VIADUCTO DE NORTH SPRING STREET ELYSIAN PARK FIGUERO110 r NORTH MAIN STREET BRIDGE (1910) 7 PUENTE DE NORTH MAIN STREET DODGER CÉSAR CHÁVEZ/MACY STREET BRIDGE (1926) STADIUM 8 t PUENTE DE CÉSAR CHÁVEZ/MACY STREET AY HOLL DW y YW OOD FWY OA N BR u FIRST STREET VIADUCT (1929) N SPRING ST 9 N MAIN ST VIADUCTO DE FIRST STREET 101 MARIACHI PLAZA 110 FOURTH STREET VIADUCT (1931) CÉ 0 SAR E CHÁ VIADUCTO DE FOURTH STREET VEZ UNION CITY STATION AVE HALL i - SIXTH STREET VIADUCT (1932) VIADUCTO DE SIXTH STREET 101 E 1ST ST o SEVENTH STREET VIADUCT (1927/1910) E 4TH ST = FWY VIADUCTO DE SEVENTH STREET a ANA E 6TH ST TA OLYMPIC BOULEVARD VIADUCT (1925) s SAN q VIADUCTO DE OLYMPIC BOULEVARD E 7TH ST d OL E WASHINGTON BOULEVARD BRIDGE (1931) SANT E YMPIC A AV AV w PUENTE DE WASHINGTON BOULEVARD MONIC A FWY YLE BLVD 10 CENTRAL f S BO ST W ASHINGT TO ON E BLVD S SO AV A ST A FE g SANT ALAMED Getting From Here to There De aquí allá hen you think about cities and bridges, what comes uando uno se pone a pensar sobre ciudades y W to mind? Most people imagine San Francisco’s C puentes, ¿cuáles vienen a la mente? La mayoría de Golden Gate Bridge, or the Brooklyn Bridge in New York. la gente imaginan al puente de Golden Gate en San Just about every big city has at least a bridge or Francisco o quizás el puente de Brooklyn en Nueva York. two, and Los Angeles is no exception. The Los Angeles Casi todas las ciudades grandes tienen por lo River is home to twenty-seven bridges. Fourteen of them menos un puente o dos y Los Angeles no es excepción. have been declared as historic, recognizing that they El río de Los Angeles está cruzado por veintisiete puentes. were built at a time and in a way that makes them Catorce de ellos han sido declarados históricos, en interesting to us today. Each of the historic bridges has reconocimiento al hecho de que fueron construidos unique features that make it special and worth preserving, durante una época y en una manera que les presta interés or saving. Just what makes these bridges so special? para nosotros hoy en día. Cada uno de los puentes Let’s take a closer look. históricos tiene características únicas que le brinda algo especial y merecen preservación. ¿Qué cosa tan especial tienen estos puentes? Vamos a fijarnos bien de cerca. How Water Makes a City Agua hace la ciudad ¿Se te ha ocurrido alguna vez que casi cada ciudad en Ever wonder why just about every city in America has a América tiene un río? Piénsalo. La gente necesita agua river? Think about it. People need water to live, so they para vivir y por eso se mudan al sitio donde el agua move to a place where water is easy to find. More than a es abundante. Más de mil años atrás, los indígenas thousand years ago, the Tongva-Gabrielino Indians settled Tongva-Gabrielino se establecieron a los lados del río de along the Los Angeles River for that very reason. In the Los Angeles por esa razón. A finales de los 1700s los late 1700s, Spanish settlers came here, too. Other settlers colonizadores españoles también vinieron aquí. Y otros followed soon after. The river provided enough water for colonizadores siguieron tras ellos muy de cerca. El río people to drink, to grow crops, and to build homes. It proveía suficiente agua para tomar, para crecer el cultivo wasn’t long before Los Angeles became a y para la construcción de casas. No tardó mucho para bustling city. que Los Angeles se convirtiera en una ciudad animada. A River of Concrete Un río de concreto The Spanish settlers probably wouldn’t recognize the Los colonizadores españoles probablemente no pudieran Los Angeles River today. After a huge flood in 1938, reconocer al río de Los Angeles hoy. Después de una workers covered the riverbed with concrete to control future inundación enorme en 1938, los trabajadores cubrieron el flooding. Today, people are looking at ways to remove lecho del río con concreto para controlar las inundaciones some of that concrete. They want to restore parts of the en el futuro. Hoy la gente busca maneras de remover algo natural river bed to their natural beauty while also making de ese concreto. Ellos quieren restaurar partes naturales del sure that the river is safe from flooding. lecho del río a su estado de belleza natural mientras que aseguran que el río estará salvo de inundaciones. ALCANZANDO LA HISTORIA 1 How Does a Bridge Work? ¿Cómo funciona un puente? ake a board and lay it across two bricks. Then oma una tabla de madera y ponla entre dos ladrillos. T stand on the board. What happens? The board will T Entonces párate sobre la tabla. ¿Qué ocurre? La tabla probably bend and sag under your weight. The top side probablemente se empieza a doblar bajo tu peso. La of the board is under a force called compression, which parte de arriba de la tabla está bajo una fuerza llamada causes it to shorten. Meanwhile, the bottom side of the compresión y eso causa que se acorte. Mientras que board is under a force called tension, which causes it to la parte debajo la tabla está bajo una fuerza llamada stretch and lengthen. tensión y eso causa que se estire y se alargue. A sagging bridge isn’t good. So the job of a Un puente combado no sirve. Por eso el trabajo bridge designer is to make sure that those two forces, de un diseñador de puentes es asegurar que esas compression and tension, are always in balance. dos fuerzas, la compresión y la tensión, siempre se mantengan en balance. compression compresión tension tensión This truss bridge in Este puente atado en Did you know that the ¿Sabías que el puente de Oregon is just over four Oregon es un poco más de Golden Gate Bridge is the Golden Gate es solamente miles long. cuatro millas de largo. second-longest suspension el segundo más largo de bridge in the country? The los puentes de suspensión longest is the Verrazano- en el país? El más largo es Narrows Bridge in New el puente de Verrazano- York City. Narrows en la Ciudad de Nueva York. 2 SPANNING HISTORY It Takes All Kinds Hay todos tipos There are lots of ways to make sure that compression and Hay muchas maneras de asegurar que la compresión y tension are balanced in a bridge design. la tensión estén en balance en el diseño de un puente. A truss bridge spreads out the tension and compression Un puente atado reparte la tensión y la compresión por into steel support beams along each side of the bridge. las vigas de acero en ambos lados del puente. El diseño The criss-cross lattice design might look nice, but mostly entrecruzado quizás tenga algo de atractivo pero su it’s there to make sure that the bridge stays strong. mayor propósito es asegurar que el puente se mantenga fuerte. On a suspension bridge, the forces of compression and tension are transferred along long, steel cables that Sobre un puente de suspensión (también llamado are anchored in the ground on either side of the bridge. “puente colgante”) las fuerzas de compresión y tensión The cables also transfer the weight to the bridge’s towers, son transferidas a través de los largos cables de acero and the towers compress into the ground.
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