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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsWho built the Golden Gate Bridge?
Last edited Sun May 27, 2012, 09:24 PM - Edit history (1)
Celebrate San Francisco!! Celebrate government infrastructure for the social good.
Back in the day private enterprise joined forces with the government for the good of all.
75 years and going strong
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Who built the Golden Gate Bridge? (Original Post)
malaise
May 2012
OP
"At the end of forty years, the bridge becomes a free bridge and reverts for operation to the State"
TahitiNut
May 2012
#10
The McClintic-Marshall Construction Co.; a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. n/t
cherokeeprogressive
May 2012
#4
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)1. Was it...
?
malaise
(267,808 posts)7. Cracking up here
pinboy3niner
(53,339 posts)8. And a great riff by WillyT in #6
spanone
(135,633 posts)2. built in four years and four months!!!
Gregorian
(23,867 posts)3. In 1930 voters passed a bond issue.
http://www.sfmuseum.net/hist10/strauss.html
Voters in the six newly-formed Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District counties went to the polls on Nov 4, 1930 to approve a major bond issue during the depths of the Depression to fund construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.
TahitiNut
(71,611 posts)10. "At the end of forty years, the bridge becomes a free bridge and reverts for operation to the State"
Well, they were HALF right.
cherokeeprogressive
(24,853 posts)4. The McClintic-Marshall Construction Co.; a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corporation. n/t
Robb
(39,665 posts)5. I always assumed, like the pyramids, it was aliens.
WillyT
(72,631 posts)6. Rachel Maddow Is An ALIEN ???
Who knew???
I was there for the 50th Anniversary celebration. One HELL of a fireworks show... saw it from Chrissy Field.
malaise
(267,808 posts)11. Haaaaaaaa!
Kaleva
(36,146 posts)9. According to the History Channel
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)12. A bunch of underpaid guys who went home with sore backs.