Tuesday! A Day to enjoy our local history!
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Tuesday: ejoanna
Wednesday: Pam from Calif
Thursday: art ah zen
Friday: FloridaSNMOM
Saturday: Gwennedd
Sunday: loggersbrat
Earlier this month was the anniversary (85th!!) of the start of the Golden Gate Bridge construction. I have “lived” with the GG Bridge nearby my whole life—and yet whenever I cross its span I still marvel at its beauty—and the improbability that this magnificent structure got built, and efficiently, during the Great Depression!!!
Truly (and sadly) we don’t build ‘em like that anymore! Not in this country at least.
Here is an update from The New York Times.
March 2, 2018
Eighty-five years ago this week, officials were preparing to celebrate the start of work on the Golden Gate Bridge — a $35 million feat of engineering that was touted at the time as the longest clear-span bridge in the world.
And, my, what a celebration it would be.
In a 1933 story previewing the Feb. 26 groundbreaking ceremonies, The New York Times noted that all the elaborate planning for the festivities was actually overshadowing the bridge itself.
It seemed that just about anyone considered important — including politicians from across the country — planned to participate in what The Times called “one of the most pretentious celebrations of its kind ever held west of the Rockies.”
But the article noted that in calmer moments, Californians were proud to boast about their bridge. It would dwarf other bridges in size, and importantly, the story said, it would “afford to sightseers a glimpse of that magnificent vista of hills and water that hitherto has been possible only from the decks of ships.”