1955 Press Photo Worker's Truck heads into the 800-foot-long Belle Chasse Tunnel

A Worker's Truck heads into the 800-foot-long Belle Chasse Tunnel - Project Under Canal Opens Road to Callender - Belle Chasse Tunnel Nearly Complete - Like a mole in a hole. That's how this swamp rat felt today. After a lifetime of traveling atop the water in Louisiana marshland, he now can travel under water in the new Belle Chasse Tunnel-the state's first vehicular tunnel-and stayed dry.

Photo is dated 1955.

Photo measures 10 x 8 inches.