Google says the Golden Gate Bridge is 75 years old today (dial-up warning)

[lunatica]

http://www.google.com/webhp?hl=en&tab=ww

[taterguy]

1. Thanks for the dial-up warning

[lunatica]

2. Thanks for the snark

I fixed it and you could have just made the suggestion.

[taterguy]

5. You're welcome

[lunatica]

7. LOL!

Only the most dense think their snark is so cute they need to thank someone for sarcasm. And the dial-up was just the same the second time wasn't it?

LOL!

[LeftyMom]

10. Dial up is really slow!

There you go.

[taterguy]

13. Thanks!

[treestar]

3. A beautiful spot

I was lucky enough to have been there a couple of times.

[lunatica]

4. I live in Oakland and work in UC Berkeley

I think the Bay Area must be the most diverse place on earth

[TahitiNut]

22. Agreed. It's my "heaven" .. after living all over the country, the Bay Area is where my heart is.

I miss it terribly. I miss my occasional day-trip up to GGNRA where I could sit on the bluff with a sandwich and view the Golden Gate as seen in many of the photos above. That day would include parking SoMa, Cable Car to the wharf, breakfast at the Buena Vista, cable car back, browsing the bookstores and doing some shopping, and just general pedestrianism ... the best walking-around city in the US.

[Happyhippychick]

6. That last one took my breath away. Fantastic!

[jp11]

8. When you wrote 'google says' I was wondering what the catch was

like did they get it wrong?

[lunatica]

9. If you click on the link it shows the google page with the reference to the birthday

[Odin2005]

11. That damn Big Gummit, making bridges for us!

[dana_b]

12. very cool! those pictures are stunning

At my old work we literally had views of the entire bay from south of the Bay Bridge all the way out past the GG bridge to the ocean. It never gets old.

[lunatica]

14. I work for UC in the Chase Building in Berkeley on the 10th floor

I love working there! The building has huge windows and there's a view out of all the sides.

The thing I love the most is the ever changing view. It changes from minute to minute.

[dana_b]

21. lol - I worked at UCSF

on Parnassus. UC sure knows how to get the best views!!

[cherokeeprogressive]

15. That's a terrible photoshop job on the last pic.

The others are beautiful though!

The first time I went across the Golden Gate, it was so foggy the only way we knew we were on the bridge was when we passed the first tower!

[Brother Buzz]

19. It's debatable if, by definition, it's a photoshop

Canon 50D, 16-35L f/2.8 at 17mm, 1 sec, stacked with 100-400mm f/5.6L shot taken at 800mm w/ 2x Extender. This is composite two images shot sequentially with same camera, different lenses -- a technique developed by astroimagers.

[Brickbat]

16. I went to San Fran for the first time several years ago, and the Golden Gate bridge was on the list

of things to see, of course. Nothing prepared me for its size and the way it made me feel. I find it, as a public work, to be truly inspirational. It's a gem and we have much to be proud of with it.

[DireStrike]

17. I vote we rename it the crimson gate bridge. Any opposed? No? Good, motion carried.

[KeepItReal]

20. Are you gonna rename us the crimson state to go with that?

Sheesh!

[DireStrike]

27. Well, you can't be "The Red State"!

[Brother Buzz]

23. Because that asshole John C. Frémont named the strait ninety years before the bridge was built?

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[Faygo Kid]

18. Spectacular. Still love the Mackinac Bridge best of all.

Sunset at the straits. Simply doesn't get any better.

[TahitiNut]

24. Heresy! There are TROLLS living below that bridge.

[alphafemale]

25. I would have guessed it was older than that. nt

[dickthegrouch]

26. There's to be a big fireworks show at 9:30pm Sunday

Means the span will be closed for about an hour.
There's an all-day celebration in Crissy Field too, which authorities say "DO NOT DRIVE TO"

May it last at least 75 more years.