Building the Golden Gate Bridge

An America Hurrah Special
Building the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge, 1933 - 1936

1. 1936 Memories

     

2. Ground Breaking

     

3. Tower W2

     

4. The Bridge Builders

    

5.The Navy Arrives

 

 

 

 

6. Cable Spinning

  

7. A Year to Go

  

8.The Cantilever

  

9. Lifting Deck Steel

 

10. Opening Day

The photographs in this series are from a set of postcards I  published for the 50th Anniversary of the Bay Bridge in 1986.  The number of sets printed was 4,400.  The photographs came from the San Francisco Archives at the Main Library.
They are sold out.