She saw a rambling inn to her left, built out over the water on heavy wooden pilings.
The wooden pilings and flooring shuddered at the sudden onslaught.
The thick wooden pilings and their trusses that once formed the bridge supports were nowhere to be seen.
The supports are 10 times cheaper than all new wooden pilings and don't appeal to borer worms.
On one side the river sucked at the wooden pilings.
In 1947, the wooden pilings deteriorated, and the building began to collapse into the bay.
It jutted out of the hillside on heavy wooden pilings, almost like a beach house in Malibu.
The new one, to be finished by June, will not appeal to the tiny marine organisms that eat their way through wooden pilings.
The old dock, however, was constructed using creosote to preserve the wooden pilings.
Piers sit atop pile caps on wooden pilings approximately 70 feet deep.
