PHOTOS: Stubborn bridge gives up Salem perch after a lot of tugging

A crane gently eases the skeletal frame of the Center Street skybridge onto the former site of the Nordstrom store on Saturday, June 25. (Ron Cooper/Salem Reporter)

Those in downtown Salem got a slow-motion show on Saturday, June 25, as construction crews worked to remove a pedestrian skybridge.

The skybridge linked one part of Salem Center to the former Nordstrom building. The old retail building is getting taken down to make way for new apartment…