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…
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.
Building a bridge is a war with the forces of Nature. —Joseph Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge
This bridge needs neither praise, nor eulogy, nor encomium. It speaks for itself.
—Joseph Strauss, at the opening ceremony for the Golden Gate Bridge
Every span is something that ‘can’t be done’ until the men in steel helmets have driven in their last rivet. —Joseph Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge
81 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…
80 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…
…This week, show us something that defies the odds. —WordPress Weekly Photo Challenge The idea that the Golden Gate Strait could be spanned with a bridge was unthinkable 100 years ago. It was known as “the Bridge that couldn’t be built” until Joseph Strauss came along with a plan and proved that it could be done. I had the…
