World's Longest Wooden Bridge, Lake Pend d'Oreille, Sandpoint, Idaho, circa 1940

About this postcard

The view looks along the roadway of a long wooden pile bridge curving out over Lake Pend d'Oreille at Sandpoint, Idaho, with low green mountains across the water and a roadside sign reading "Sandpoint, Idaho" beside a civic-club emblem. The card advertises the structure as the world's longest wooden bridge at two miles in length, a landmark trestle that once carried traffic across the lake before being superseded by a modern crossing. The sign below the emblem notes meetings on the first and third Mondays, a bit of local flavor captured in the photograph.