When former – and now, the late Mayor Jimmy Griffin touted the 1987 opening of a Main Street pedestrian bridge between Main Place Mall and the former AM&A’s flagship store he called it a key symbol of downtown’s rebirth.
Turns out Griffin was wrong and the bridge was derided and called by many an eyesore.
The bridge was only open for seven years, closing after AM&A’s shuttered its doors in March 1994…