Building the Golden Gate Bridge:
1933 - 1937
(9 of 10 photos)
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Building the Golden Gate Bridge:
1933 - 1937 Opening Day, May 27,
1937 When
the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened six months earlier thousands of
people poured onto the bridge holding up auto traffic for hours. Wisely
the directors of the Golden Gate Bridge had a special day just for pedestrians
and an estimated 200,000 people came. (I was one of them.) That
evening there was spectacular production, "The Span of Gold", a
musical pageant of California history.
(9 of 10 photos)