Prior to the completion of the bridge in 1935, Whidbey Island was linked to Fidalgo Island by the Deception Pass ferry, which ran from 1924 to 1935.

Prior to the completion of the current Air France head office in Tremblay-en-France in December 1995, Air France was headquartered in a tower located next to the Gare Montparnasse rail station in Montparnasse and in the 15th arrondissement ; Air France had its headquarters in the tower for about 30 years.

Prior to the completion of Arco Plaza, Anderson commissioned Bayer to design a monumental sculpture-fountain to be installed between the dark green granite towers.

Prior to the completion of the Assembly Hall at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1963, the building had the largest free-spanning dome in the United States and was the largest in the world from 1902-1913.

Prior to completion of I-35, traffic was routed directly through town ; generating significant sales revenue to many retailers which literally had a major highway running directly past their doors.

Prior to completion of the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad in 1859, the city was minimally developed with cheap frame houses, with little pretense of architectural beauty or design.

Prior to the building's completion, the township conducted business from a rented basement office at Kiski Park Plaza shopping center on Route 56 at the intersection of the 356 by-pass.

Prior to the building's completion in 1984, Music & Art ( a / k / a " The Castle on the Hill ") was located on Convent Avenue and 135th Street in what has since become part of City College ( CCNY )' s South Campus ; the building is home to A. Philip Randolph High School.

Prior to the completion in 1844 of a long tunnel through a spur in the Moelwyn Mountain, the slate trains were worked over the top via inclines ( designed by Robert Stephenson ), the site of which can still be seen but there are no visible remnants.

Prior to its completion, traffic travelling from nearby Southampton and Portsmouth ( major ferry ports ) and from farther west to London and the north had to exit the truncated M3 and travel on the heavily congested 1930s Winchester Bypass.

Prior to the completion of the Empire Connection in 1991 the Maple Leaf originated at Grand Central Terminal in New York instead of Penn Station.

Prior to the completion of the granite wall in the 1920s, the prison saw numerous escape attempts ; the first one occurring shortly after the first inmates arrived in the 1880s.

Prior to the completion of the M6 motorway in 1971 and the opening of the A1-M1 Link road in 1994 traffic would have used the A45 road.

Prior to the completion of the Mississippi Aerial River Transit in May 1984 and the Portland Aerial Tram in December 2006, it was the only commuter aerial tramway in North America.

Prior to 1999, the pairings for the CWS were not determined until after the completion of the regional tournaments.

Prior to the completion of reservoirs and irrigation works in the mid-20th century, the Tarim's waters eventually reached Lop Nur ( now a salt-encrusted lake bed ).

Prior to the completion of the freeway, US 93 and US 95 originally followed Fremont Street / Boulder Highway from downtown Las Vegas southeast through Henderson towards to Boulder City.

Prior to the completion of Bank of America Stadium, in Charlotte, it was used by the Carolina Panthers NFL team, in its inaugural 1995 season.

Prior to the M74 completion, a solution to the congestion problems has been the Clyde Arc or " Squinty Bridge ", which opened in September 2006-this route is expected to take at least some of the local short-distance traffic away from the Kingston.

Prior even to the ENIAC's completion, the Army procured a second contract from the Moore School to build a successor machine known as the EDVAC.

Prior to the completion of Interstate 65, motorists traveling from Mobile to Birmingham followed U. S. 43 to Thomasville ; from there, they followed State Route 5 until its junction with U. S. Route 11 near West Blocton.

Prior to the completion of Corridor X in western Alabama, U. S. 43 and U. S. 278 shared a concurrency with U. S. 78 between Guin and Hamilton.

Prior to the completion of Corridor X ( Future I-22 ), these two routes also overlapped U. S. Route 78 between these two towns, with East U. S. 78 travelling in the same direction as West U. S. 278.

Prior to the completion of the Elton B. Stephens ( Red Mountain ) Expressway in Birmingham, U. S. 31, U. S. 78 and U. S. 280 overlapped until they junctioned U. S. Route 11 at the intersection of 1st Avenue North and 24th Street.

Prior to the featured race, the stewards announced that apprentice James P. Verrone is suspended ten days for crowding horses and crossing the field sharply in two races on Wednesday.

Abbot Francis Michael and Prior Anthony Delisi ( on the left ) of Monastery of the Holy Spirit, a Trappist monastery in Conyers, Georgia, USA.

Prior to modern times, there was no distinction between architects, engineers and often artists, and the title used varied depending on geographical location.

He wrote many commentaries on the works of Aristotle, extant are those on the Prior Analytics, Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics.

His extant commentaries are on Prior Analytics ( Book 1 ), Topics, Meteorology, Sense and Sensibilia, and Metaphysics ( Books 1-5 ).

His works include a treatise on the Holy Eucharist, one on the Procession of the Holy Spirit, many lives of saints, as well as a history of his term as Prior General of the Camaldolese.

Prior to the First Buddhist Council, it was proposed that Ananda not be permitted to attend on the grounds that he was not yet an arahant.

Prior to the 1950s, Alberta was a primarily agricultural economy, based on the export of wheat, beef, and a few other commodities.

Prior to the introduction of AutoCAD, most other CAD programs ran on mainframe computers or minicomputers, with each CAD operator ( user ) working at a graphical terminal or workstation.

Prior to major influence from outside, there were approximately 25, 000 Aleuts on the archipelago.

Prior to 2006, off-premises alcohol sales were forbidden until noon on Sundays, and liquor / wine stores were required to be closed the entire day.

Prior to 2006, in common with many other Caribbean countries, Cable & Wireless ( Caribbean ) had a statutory monopoly on telephone and other electronic communications services.

Prior to the Normandy landings on D-Day in June 1944, the Allies knew the locations of all but two of the 58 German divisions on the Western front.

Prior to the period of these scriptures, Mahāyāna metaphysics had been dominated by teachings on emptiness in the form of Madhyamaka philosophy.

There are a number of interesting monuments, most notably that of Prior Vivian which was formerly in the Priory Church ( Thomas Vivian's effigy lying on a chest: black Catacleuse stone and grey marble ).

Prior to this event, the technique had been published in an issue of 391 in the poem by Tzara, dada manifesto on feeble love and bitter love under the sub-title, TO MAKE A DADAIST POEM

Prior to the 1995 season, the Rockies acquired free-agent outfielder Larry Walker, previously of the Montreal Expos, who replaced Kingery as the 4th member of the " Blake Street Bombers "— named after the street on which the new ballpark ( Coors Field ) was located — along with Galarraga, Bichette, and third baseman Vinny Castilla, who had played sparingly with the major-league club during the previous season.

Prior to 1930, Central Committee departments focused on major components of " political work ".

Prior to the invention of tension rods drum skins were attached and tuned by rope systems such as that used on the Djembe or pegs and ropes such as that used on Ewe Drums, a system rarely used today, although sometimes seen on regimental marching band snare drums.

Prior, whose authority is great in the origin of popular names, says " It seems probably that the name was in the first place, foxes ' glew, or music, in reference to the favourite instrument of an earlier time, a ring of bells hung on an arched support, the tintinnabulum "... we cannot quite agree with Dr.