Family Spanning

I’d like to fill in some blanks for the historians about the Bridge to Nowhere (“A Span Without a Reason, Frozen in Time,” Jan. 31).

My father’s construction company, E.S. and N.S. Johnson, built the bridge. Family photographs refer to it as the San Gabriel Canyon Bridge. It was completed in 1936 at a cost of $19,719. During construction, my parents and grandfather lived in two small cabins downriver from the bridge. My father, Norman Johnson, and his company went on to build many other bridges in California. Most of them still go somewhere.

Ron Johnson

Fullerton