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Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge in California spans the entrance from the Pacific Ocean into
San Francisco Bay, connecting
San Francisco to Marin County.
When it was first completed in
1937,
it was for a time the largest suspension bridge in the world. While this
is no longer the case, it nevertheless remains an internationally recognized
symbol of San Francisco, and has featured prominently in many movies and films.
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The Golden Gate Bridge During Construction
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The Golden Gate Bridge During Construction
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Sailing Boats with the Golden Gate Bridge and Summer Fog in Background, San Francisco, California
48.75" X 38.75"
Framed Photographic Print
Artist: Roberto Gerometta.
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Golfing, Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California
48.75" X 38.75"
Framed Photographic Print
Artist: Mark Newman.
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Dawn Over the Golden Gate Bridge from Marin Headlands, San Francisco, California, USA
48.75" X 38.75"
Framed Photographic Print
Artist: David Tomlinson.
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Fog Blankets a Sailboat in San Francisco Bay
30.625" X 24.625"
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Baker Beach, Golden Gate National Recreation Area, San Francisco, California
38.875" X 30.875"
Framed Photographic Print
Artist: Richard Cummins.
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
28.6875" X 12.6875"
Framed Photographic Print
Artist: Curtis Martin.
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The Golden Gate Bridge, Summer Morning
16" X 16"
Framed Art Print
Artist: Hulton Archive.
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco
15" X 15"
Framed Art Print
Artist: K Stimpson.
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Golden Gate Bridge, CA
21.6875" X 17.6875"
Framed Art Print
Artist: Lynn Eodice.
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Golden Gate Bridge, CA
48.75" X 38.75"
Framed Art Print
Artist: Lynn Eodice.
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA
17.6875" X 21.6875"
Framed Art Print
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, CA
21.6875" X 17.6875"
Framed Art Print
Artist: Mark Segal.
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Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California, USA
38.875" X 30.875"
Framed Art Print
Artist: Gavin Hellier.
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By Donald MacDonald
Chronicle Books
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Nine million people visit the Golden Gate Bridge each year, yet how many know why it's painted that stunning shade of "international orange"? Or that ancient Mayan and Art Deco buildings influenced the design? Current bridge architect Donald MacDonald answers these questions and others in a friendly, informative look at the bridge's engineering and 70-year history. This accessible account is accompanied by 70 of MacDonald's own charming color illustrations, making it easy to understand how the bridge was designed and constructed. A fascinating study for those interested in architecture, design, or anyone with a soft spot for San Francisco, Golden Gate Bridge is a fitting tribute to this timeless icon. |
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By John van der Zee
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The Gate is an absorbing panoramic account of the building of one of the world's most beautiful and famous landmarks. In a narrative richly laden with detail and the flavor of the period, John van der Zee reveals for the first time the complete history of the longest single-span suspension bridge of its time—including the identity of the man who actually designed it, which has been obscured since its completion in 1937. With novelistic flair, van der Zee recounts an exciting drama of human greed, ambition, frailty, courage, and intellectual achievement. "It is among the top books on California I have ever read."—Kevin Starr, State Librarian of California and author of Americans and the California Dream "A case study of personal and technological adventure bordering on hubris...The engineers in this bok come alive as people, with all the faults and foibles associated iwth the human species. A fascinating work that shows that the best of cutting-edge engineering is much, much more than science and technology."—Henri Petroski, Nature |
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By Louise Nelson Dyble
University of Pennsylvania Press
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Since its opening in 1937, San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge has become an icon for the beauty and prosperity of the San Francisco Bay Area, as well as a symbol of engineering achievement. Constructing the bridge posed political and financial challenges that were at least as difficult as those faced by the project's builders. To meet these challenges, northern California boosters created a new kind of agency: an autonomous, self-financing special district. The Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District developed into a powerful organization that shaped the politics and government of the Bay Area as much as the bridge shaped its physical development. From the moment of the bridge district's incorporation in 1928, its managers pursued their own agenda. They used all of the resources at their disposal to preserve their control over the bridge, cultivating political allies, influencing regional policy, and developing an ambitious public relations program. Undaunted by charges of mismanagement and persistent efforts to turn the bridge (as well as its lucrative tolls) over to the state, the bridge district expanded into mass transportation, taking on ferry and bus operations to ensure its survival to this day. Drawing on previously unavailable archives, Paying the Toll gives us an inside view of the world of high-stakes development, cronyism, and bureaucratic power politics that have surrounded the Golden Gate Bridge since its inception. |
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With a bow to the Japanese artist Katsushika Hokusai (1760-1849), whose woodblock series 100 Views of Mt. Fuji celebrates Japan's iconic mountain, this book is a lush photographic paean to San Francisco's world-famous icon--and the official symbol of the State of California--the majestic Golden Gate. In this masterful tribute to the natural wonders of the San Francisco landscape, as well as the enduring aesthetic and engineering marvel of the Golden Gate Bridge, professional photographer/writer and Bay Area native Harold Davis has created a collection of over 100 striking photographs of the magnificent Golden Gate--the strait that connects the San Francisco Bay to the Pacific Ocean and the Bridge itself--taken from different vantage points, times of day and night, and seasons. Awash in color and mood, the all-color digital images in this book show that the Golden Gate is worth a look again and again and again. - Includes reproductions of well-known Hokusai prints, as well as back stories for each Golden Gate photo.
- Author of a number of other photography books, Harold Davis also writes the popular Photoblog 2.
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By Carole Marsh
Gallopade International
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By E. J. Knapp
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From the gigantic shell mounds built by the earliest inhabitants of the San Francisco Bay area to the building of the ‘bridge that couldn’t be built’ and the fifty years following its completion, Secrets of the Golden Gate Bridge is a humorous history lesson of one of the greatest wonders of the modern world. There is something magical about the Golden Gate Bridge, something that tugs at the impulsive spirit, giving birth to the hidden desire to do something weird. On May 27th, 1937, 18,000 people waited in the cool San Francisco morning for the bridge to officially open. By day’s end, 200,000 had walked, crawled, run, danced, skipped, jumped, hopped, and sat on every square inch of the new bridge. But the weirdness didn’t end that day. For the next 50 years, the bridge has seen all manner of stunt performed over its span. Parachuting off the towers, bungee jumping off the side, scaling the suspension cables dressed in monkey suits, and yes, ending one’s life, the bridge has seen it all. It even has its own ghost. Enjoy facts, figures and comparisons? You’ll find them here. If all the rivets needed for construction of the Golden Gate Bridge were placed head to toe, they would form an enormous serpent 37 miles in length. It would take 106 Bactrian camels, each standing upon the humps of the one below, to equal the height of one of the towers. And within those seemingly solid towers, the weight of which is equal to the weight of 114 747 jumbo jets, you would find 23 miles worth of ladders connecting you over 90 different routes. It required a 26-page manual just to navigate the maze. This book was originally published by Chronicle Books in 1987 under the title "The Great Golden Gate Bridge Trivia Book". |
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By Ernest Cromwell Mensch
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By Frank Baron
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By Mary C Currie
Golden Gate Bridge, Highway and Transportation District
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