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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #1 on: October 15, 2023, 11:17:04 PM »

Still a better name than any of the proposed ones.
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #2 on: October 19, 2023, 05:01:20 PM »

It appears that another "Harambe Memorial Bridge" has popped up in Florida--this time for the Cross Florida Greenway Bridge over I-75.  :spin:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/UtJ7sefrd9TcCLjw5
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #3 on: October 19, 2023, 06:37:15 PM »

Are the two Harambe Memorial Bridges named after the same person?
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #4 on: October 19, 2023, 06:56:19 PM »

Are the two Harambe Memorial Bridges named after the same person?
Heh.  Someone needs to Google "Harambe."
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #5 on: October 19, 2023, 07:01:31 PM »

Are the two Harambe Memorial Bridges named after the same person?

Yes, George Harambe (1896 - 1977) was a former politician who served in SC and FL.
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #6 on: October 19, 2023, 07:06:21 PM »

That archway looks really tacky.
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #7 on: October 19, 2023, 07:10:51 PM »

I took Rothman's suggestion, and the search engine came up with a gorilla that lived in both a Brownsville and then a Cincinatti Zoo from 1999-2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambe. I doubt that a bridge in either South Carolina or Florida would be named after a gorilla who never resided in a zoo in either state, but stranger things have happened.
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #8 on: October 19, 2023, 07:12:41 PM »

I took Rothman's suggestion, and the search engine came up with a gorilla that lived in both a Brownsville and then a Cincinatti Zoo from 1999-2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambe. I doubt that a bridge in either South Carolina or Florida would be named after a gorilla who never resided in a zoo in either state, but stranger things have happened.
FWIW, I strongly believe the day he was killed is the day everything truly went to shit on Earth.
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #9 on: October 19, 2023, 07:58:01 PM »

I took Rothman's suggestion, and the search engine came up with a gorilla that lived in both a Brownsville and then a Cincinatti Zoo from 1999-2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambe. I doubt that a bridge in either South Carolina or Florida would be named after a gorilla who never resided in a zoo in either state, but stranger things have happened.
FWIW, I strongly believe the day he was killed is the day everything truly went to shit on Earth.
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #10 on: October 19, 2023, 08:16:29 PM »



I took Rothman's suggestion, and the search engine came up with a gorilla that lived in both a Brownsville and then a Cincinatti Zoo from 1999-2016: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harambe. I doubt that a bridge in either South Carolina or Florida would be named after a gorilla who never resided in a zoo in either state, but stranger things have happened.

I don't find it hard to believe that someone would have dug themselves under so large a rock to have missed out on the Harambe mourning Internet craze.
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #11 on: October 19, 2023, 08:20:44 PM »

Are the two Harambe Memorial Bridges named after the same person?

Yes, George Harambe (1896 - 1977) was a former politician who served in SC and FL.

“Dicks out for Harambe” is still one of the all time great campaign slogans.
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #12 on: October 20, 2023, 09:21:57 PM »

Are the two Harambe Memorial Bridges named after the same person?
Heh.  Someone needs to Google "Harambe."

Doesn't look like they read the OP's article, either.  Spells out right there in the first paragraph that it was named after the gorilla.
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #13 on: October 21, 2023, 12:56:05 AM »

It appears that another "Harambe Memorial Bridge" has popped up in Florida--this time for the Cross Florida Greenway Bridge over I-75.  :spin:

https://maps.app.goo.gl/UtJ7sefrd9TcCLjw5
Looks like the same one, moved elsewhere:
https://goo.gl/maps/xbD47Un2xEVz22eV7
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Re: Harambe Memorial Bridge
« Reply #14 on: October 25, 2023, 03:56:15 PM »

That archway looks really tacky.

I agree, it looks like a Dollar General Arc de Triomphe
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