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With the celebration of the Deception Pass Bridge 75th anniversary drawing near, several Whidbey Island residents remember the original dedication that took place in the mid 1930s.

They were little kids when they attended the original dedication held July 31, 1935, but the bridge created memories that never faded.

Mary Fuller was 5 years old when she attended the bridge dedication along with her parents and several of her siblings. She doesn’t remember all of the day’s events but she still keeps a copy of the program that has tattered and yellowed over the years. Since then, the bridge has been a fixture in her life. She has painted images of the bridge and her son wrote about the history of the bridge for his thesis at Western Washington University.