Colorado Street Bridge

We'll be meeting in the parking lot of La Casita Del Arroyo Club House. The parking lot will be gated closed, so please find surrounding parking. I suggest parking near the intersection of South Arroyo Boulevard & Westbridge Place, on Westbridge Place.
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"Suicide Bridge"
During the early part of the 20th century, the Colorado Street Bridge became known locally as "Suicide Bridge" after dozens of people leaped to their deaths.
The number of deaths spiked during the Great Depression, but the deaths did not stop there.
The balustrade was replaced by an 8-foot-high (2.4 m) barrier in an effort to deter suicides, but the bridge retained its nickname. To this day, some still use the bridge as a means to end their lives.

In 2016, temporary anti-suicide barriers, in the form of 10-foot-high chain link fencing, were installed on the sidewalk inside the balustrade, blocking the seating alcoves. These alcoves are believed to be the primary route taken by suicide victims. In 2017, there were nine deaths by suicide. In 2018, there were four deaths by suicide from the bridge by September.

In Culture
One of the earliest films in which the bridge appears is in Charlie Chaplin's The Kid (filmed 1919–1920), when a mother is shown at the east end of the bridge pining for her son at about the 12-minute mark. In 1989, after the Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California, the bridge was declared a seismic hazard and closed to traffic. It was reopened in 1993 after a substantial retrofit. The bridge is closed each summer for a festival, A Celebration on the Colorado Street Bridge, hosted by historic preservation group Pasadena Heritage.
An episode from the eighth season of the series Full House, "Leap of Faith", featured the bridge in a bungee jumping scene. The bridge was depicted as being in the San Francisco Bay Area.
The 2012 Lana Del Rey song "Summertime Sadness" for the album Born To Die filmed parts of its music video on the bridge. Actress Jaime King is seen climbing over a section of the bridge and then jumping off later in the video.
The bridge was the site of the beginning of The Amazing Race season. The contestants had to rappel down the side of the bridge to their waiting cars to start the race.
In the 2016 romantic musical film La La Land, the protagonists took an evening stroll across the bridge.

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