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Happy 50th birthday to 520 Floating Bridge

Happy 50th birthday to 520 Floating Bridge

(Photos courtesy of Washington State Archives) If it seems like the Albert D. Rosellini Floating Bridge has been around for 50 years, well, that’s because it has! The span, which carries State Route 520 across Lake Washington from Seattle to Medina, opened on Aug. 28, 1963 , the same day as Dr. Martin Luther King’s “I Have a Dream” speech in Washington, D.C.  It was called the Evergreen Point Floating Bridge when it opened, but the name was changed in…

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