Editing Bremerton, Washington (section)

===1950–1970===

A second high school opened in 1956, and two comprehensive high schools operated in the city until 1978. Growth in East Bremerton necessitated the construction of another span across the Port Washington Narrows in 1958. The $5.3 million, four-lane Warren Avenue Bridge allowed for increased traffic on State Highway 21-B (now [[Washington State Route 303|State Route 303]]).

The battleship [[USS Missouri (BB-63)|USS ''Missouri'']], site of the Japanese surrender treaty signing that ended World War II, was assigned to the [[Pacific Reserve Fleet]] at PSNS in 1955. For 30 years, she served as the city's primary tourist attraction. Hundreds of thousands of visitors walked the "surrender deck" before the ship was recommissioned in 1985. She was decommissioned on March 31, 1992 (final), and her name was struck off the register on January 12, 1995. In 1998 "Mighty Mo" was donated to the USS ''Missouri'' Memorial Association and became a museum ship at [[Pearl Harbor]], Hawaii.

Population growth was flat, with 26,681 enumerated in the 1960 census, leading Bremerton leaders to annex the shipyard the following year in an effort to include stationed sailors in those figures. While the [[Vietnam War]] spawned protests and sit-ins on the Olympic College campus, the city was relatively free of civil disorder during the 1960s.