Hey All. Giuseppe "Joseph" Bazzeghin was my great-uncle. I love that this story keeps popping up, but it seems that over time the story has grown and changed and facts have been skewed. Pep, as he was known to us, was not an architect; he was a mild mannered roofer by trade and "inventor" in his spare time. He was a simple, quirky man, who today would most definitely be diagnosed as "being on the spectrum". His brother, Carlos, worked on the construction of the bridge and would write to Pep telling him about it. Eventually Pep became obsessed with it and that's how the whole roller coaster idea came about. It was not a "scam" or a "scheme" dreamed up by a "con-artist" or a "grifter" as that article implies. Believe me, Uncle Pep couldn't scheme his way out of a paper bag!
Anyway, I just thought you'd like to know a little more about this story. Ride on!
