Whaddaya bet the most uttered phrase from those in line would have been, “Here, hold my drink…”
Blast From the Past —1938
Tag: Golden Gate Bridge
Lest We Forget — 2019
82 years ago today ten men left their homes and went to work on the Golden Gate Bridge with no idea that it would be their last day on earth. Whatever hopes and dreams they had stayed with them when, later that morning, they plunged 220 feet into San Francisco Bay atop a 5-ton scaffold entwined…
Blast From the Past — 1936
The choice to low-pressure sodium vapor lamps on the Golden Gate Bridge was a last-minute decision near the end of the construction project. By 1976 these fixtures were replaced with ones using high-pressure sodium vapor lamps and even more savings in operational dollars. 40 years later, those fixtures were retro-fitted with inserts using inductive fluorescent…
Square Challenge — Time
Becky has a new Square format photo challenge for the month of December and the theme is Time.
This Just In
Photo of the Day
(In)Security
September 11, 2001 fell on a Tuesday and I heard the news about the first plane hitting the World Trade Center tower on the radio at home. While The Lioness and I were getting ready for work I turned on the television set
Dying to Work — Part 1
The triangles proved to be the tipping point. I’m a sucker for the three-sided shapes because I made a good living for a number of years by incorporating their trigonometric properties into calculations for bending conduit and laying out work on slabs and racks of pipe.
Bridge? Hah! That’s no bridge, that’s a trestle.
—Joseph Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge, reacting to the opening of the Bay Bridge, completed six months before the Golden Gate Bridge.