Golden Gate Bridge Dream

The Golden Gate Bridge

Chapter 1

The impossible dream

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Chapter 2

Engineering against the elements

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Chapter 3

The art of international orange

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Chapter 4

A living global icon

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YOUR GOAL

Master of The Golden Gate Bridge

Ch 1 · The impossible dream

federico Golden Gate Bridge Dream

Imagine the fog, building this giant bridge, A safety net stretched below, saved nineteen lives, They became the Halfway-to-Hell Club forever.

federico The battle against the ferry monopoly

The Golden Gate's biggest enemy wasn't the deep water, it was ferry barons.

newadriii Explore the untold history of the Golden Gate Bridge. See how powerful ferry barons fought its construction in this detailed historical infographic.

The initial five percent solution

federico Chief engineer Joseph Strauss initially proposed a clunky, hybrid bridge design that was widely rejected for its ugliness.

The impossible dream

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federico Build the impossible bridge to understand its groundbreaking engineering feats.

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Bridge opposition: Before construction, the project faced over 2,300 lawsuits from a powerful ferry company trying to protect its business.

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Glossary

strait (noun)
A narrow passage of water connecting two large bodies of water. In 1872, Charles Crocker proposed bridging the Golden Gate Strait, a concept critics dismissed as completely unfeasible.

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Which commute would you prefer?

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How many lawsuits did ferry companies file to try to stop the Golden Gate Bridge from being built?

federico Why people said it could never be built

Funding a bridge during the Great Depression

federico Voters defied economic ruin by putting up their own homes and businesses as collateral to fund the bridge.

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In what year did construction officially begin on the Golden Gate Bridge?

federico The initial five percent solution

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What major economic event was happening when San Francisco voters approved the Golden Gate Bridge bonds in 1930?

federico Funding a bridge during the Great Depression

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What was the total value of the bonds approved by voters in 1930 to build the Golden Gate Bridge?

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What body of water does the Golden Gate Bridge cross to connect San Francisco to Marin County?

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Which group of people put up their own properties as collateral to finance the Golden Gate Bridge bonds?

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Why did early 20th-century experts claim a bridge could never be built across the Golden Gate strait?

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Which chief engineer is credited with leading the Golden Gate Bridge project despite his ugly first design?