26 January 1933: Formidable engineering task to build two unique bridges across San Francisco BayDuring 1933 and for years thereafter San Francisco Bay will be the scene of two tremendous bridge-building operations. One bridge will run north and south near the mouth of the Golden Gate itself. The other will run approximately east and west across a much larger fragment of San Francisco Bay,from the city of San Francisco to Oakland, and will be one of the most formidable engineering tasks ever attempted.
The Golden Gate bridge has already been started, and will cost about $35000000. San Francisco lies at the tip of a northward-stretching peninsula running out between San Francisco Bay and the ocean,and this unique bridge continues the line of the peninsula across the narrow and deep Golden Gate to the northern shore, at present comparatively unsettled. [br]Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com