Completion of the Golden Gate Bridge
Sunday April 27, 2008
On April 27, 1937, after four years of construction, the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco was opened for travel between Marin County and San Francisco. The bridge featured the world’s tallest bridge towers rising up to 746 feet tall. The bridge would become the symbol of San Francisco.
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My dad worked at the Pittsburg Steel Mill (Pittsburg, California, east bay area) drawing the wire that made the wire rope that went into the construction of the bridge. Times were tough and the tales he told about the work would make workers today cringe. Most workers today could not handle it. It is a beautiful structure and the architects, engineers and all workers did a marvelous job. Dad was proud of his part in it.