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What is the history behind the Golden Gate Bridge? The original Golden Gate Bridge collapsed in 1906 during an earthquake, removing an essential crossing above the Golden Gate Strait. It was decided that a new structure would be built adjacent to the original, and planning began in 1919.



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Officials closed the Golden Gate Bridge to automobile traffic for part of May 24th, 1987, allowing an estimated 300,000 people to surge onto the roadway for “Bridgewalk ''87.” The crowd was so dense — mammalian flesh packed tighter than albacore tuna in a tin can — that the Golden Gate Bridge actually flattened in the ...

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5 Fun Facts About the Golden Gate Bridge
  • The bridge is actually not golden at all! It's a bright red-orange.
  • It was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
  • It took four years to build.
  • There are approximately 600,000 rivets in each of the bridge's towers.
  • It's the most photographed bridge in the world.


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Since it opened on May 27, 1937, there have been an estimated 1,600 deaths in which the body was recovered, and many more unconfirmed.

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Marine archaeologists say an underwater survey has identified four new shipwrecks in a graveyard just west of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge. The waters just west of San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge hide a graveyard of sunken ships.

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Do you know why the Golden Gate Bridge has its iconic name? The answer might surprise you. Rather than being named for the area's association with the Gold Rush, it's actually named for the water that runs beneath it—The Golden Gate Strait.

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The Golden Gate Bridge is closely monitored to make sure it does not exceed its stress limits due to traffic, wind and seismic loads. We can look forward to at least another 80 years of this engineering masterpiece.

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With the earlier phases of the retrofit complete, the bridge can safely withstand an earthquake over 7.0 in magnitude, but it may experience damage that requires closure after a major seismic event.

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5 Fun Facts About the Golden Gate Bridge
  • The bridge is actually not golden at all! It's a bright red-orange.
  • It was named one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World.
  • It took four years to build.
  • There are approximately 600,000 rivets in each of the bridge's towers.
  • It's the most photographed bridge in the world.


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The weight of the roadway is hung from 250 pairs of vertical suspender ropes, which are attached to two main cables. The main cables pass over the two main towers and are fixed in concrete at each end. Each cable is made of 27,572 strands of wire.

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No, the Golden Gate Bridge is not made of gold. It is made of steel. No. It's named Golden Gate because of the 1849 gold rush.

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According to the book The World Without Us by Alan Weisman, suspension and truss bridges would collapse after two or three centuries without maintenance. The cause would be rust eventually filling the expansion joints, causing damage during hot weather.

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Tolls have been the primary funding source for the bridges' maintenance and operations since the beginning — motorists paid a quarter to cross the Bay Bridge when the first tolls were enforced in 1940.

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When the Golden Gate Bridge opened in 1937, it was both the longest suspension bridge and the tallest suspension bridge in the world. Thanks in part to its parallel wire construction, the Golden Gate Bridge is strong enough to withstand magnitude 8 earthquakes.

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