Jeff, Steven and David on a sandbar on the Arkansas River just above the Free Bridge, in the fall of 1966. From the same group of slides as the earlier one I posted showing Arch and Jeff. What looks like a light in the middle of the bridge's lift span is a reflection of sunlight from the little metal building that contains the controls for lifting that part of the bridge to let barges, etc, pass under. The McClellan-Kerr navigation project was underway, as evidenced by the large rocks and wooden pilings in the photo, but wasn't completed until five years later. A new bridge to replace the Free Bridge was opened at about that time (officially opened in 1972).
