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GoldenGateBridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km), three-mile-long (4.8 km) channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, California, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County, bridging both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. Built in 1937, it was the longest suspension bridge main span in the world until it was surpassed by the Verrazano–Narrows Bridge in New York City in 1964. It is one of the most internationally recognized landmarks in the world, and has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.

Golden Gate Bridge in Curious Notions[]

Although San Francisco, like all of the 21st-century United States, was a broken, beaten-down place, the Golden Gate Bridge still stood proudly. Paul Gomes wrote a meaningless anecdote about the Bridge in a cryptic letter to Lucy Woo, as a smokescreen to distract any Feldgendarmerie men who might intercept the letter.[1]

Golden Gate Bridge in Days of Infamy[]

The Golden Gate Bridge was undamaged by the Japanese raid on San Francisco in Spring 1942, but blackout regulations slowed its traffic to a crawl. Navy flier Joe Crosetti, at home on bereavement leave, crossed the Bridge to attend the funeral of five relatives killed in the raid.[2]

Golden Gate Bridge in The Hot War[]

The Golden Gate Bridge collapsed into the San Francisco Bay following the Soviet atom bombing of San Francisco on the morning of March 2, 1951 during World War III.[3] Over a year later, the remains of the collapsed bridge were finally sufficiently cleared to allow San Francisco Bay to operate at pre-war levels.[4]

Golden Gate Bridge in The Two Georges[]

A theoretical bridge across San Francisco Bay, which would connect Drakestown with the towns across the bay, was conceived in the 20th century. Thomas Bushell remembered seeing drawings of it when he was a boy. Although it seemed in the 1980s as if the bridge would become a reality, the engineers were never able to find a way to earthquake-proof the structure to everyone's satisfaction. After the big quake of 1989, interest dropped sharply, and the structure remained unbuilt in 1995.[5]

References[]

  1. Curious Notions, p. 154.
  2. Days of Infamy, p. 346.
  3. This happened on Bombs Away, pg. 153, ebook, but is not stated until Armistice, pg. 346-347.
  4. Armistice, pg. 72, loc. 1173, ebook.
  5. The Two Georges, p. 119, HC.
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