The historic bridge made famous in the movie The Misfits is coming down. What is interesting is its still being debated whether divorcee's really threw their rings off that bridge. The story around Reno was the late Hans "Tuna" Lund bankrolled an operation to retreive rings from the river. The legend was they filled 2 coffee cans full of rings. True or not I dont but there is an article from the Milwaukee Journal dated 1977 about Darrell Garmann who spent 2 years dredging the river around the bridge. He found 300 rings the most expensive being appraised at $1200 at the time. He also found coins with a face value totalling $1200 and the rarest of them appraised at $800 at the time.
Google Reno River Yields Divorce Rings. This should put an end to whether it was a myth or not.
Posted by: mickeycrimm@yahoo.com
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