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Read More →Longest Suspension Bridge in the world; 4,200 feet between towers; 220 feet clearance at high tide; height of towers, 740 feet; deck, 90 feet wide. Total cost $35,000,000. Portion of San Francisco Presidio in foreground; Marin County hills and beginning of Redwood Empire in distance. Mailed from San Francisco, California Read More →
Majestic Sweep of the Golden Gate Bridge at Sunset The Golden Gate, famed portal to San Francisco Bay, a great landlocked sea – a beautiful and extensive harbor, peer to any in the world. Here at the Gate, man has met the age-old challenge of the mighty barrier of treacherous Read More →
Spans Golden Gate connecting San Francisco with Marin County and the north. Length of Bridge and approaches about seven miles. Length of Bridge proper, 8,940 feet. Span between towers 4,200 feet – longest in the world. Main towers 746 feet above water – highest in the world. Bridge clearance above Read More →
Showing the Marin approach tunnels to the Golden Gate Bridge. Beyond lies the City of San Francisco. The grand total length, including the two approach roads, or from Waldo Point in Marin County to the Marina Gate of the Presidio in San Francisco, all embraced within the project, is seven Read More →
The Golden Gate Bridge (costing $35,500,000) is the main connecting link between the peninsula of San Francisco and northern California. The two enormous towers from which the bridge is suspended rise to the height of a 65-story building, 746 ft. above the water. The central span clearing the water by Read More →
This is the world’s tallest and largest single span suspension bridge. It was built at a cost of $35,500,000, and crosses historic Golden Gate at San Francisco. Two main cable towers 746-ft. tall support 36 1/2 inch master cables from which is suspended a 90 ft. wide, 6 lane traffic Read More →
The Golden Gate brings Northern California and the San Francisco Bay cities into closer and rapid contact. This imposing structure has the largest single span of any bridge in the World. 4200 feet. The total width of the bridge is 90 feet. It has two pedestrian sidewalks and six lanes Read More →
Aerial view of Golden Gate Bridge, the approach freeway through the Presidio, the Toll Plaza and distant high hills of Marin County. The tides race through this one-mile opening between the ocean and San Francisco Bay at speeds about 10 miles per hour. E.F. Clements, 1120 Mission, SF, Cal. Natural Read More →
This is the world’s tallest and largest single span suspension bridge. It was built at a cost of $35,000,000, and crosses historic Golden Gate at San Francisco. San Francisco harbor and bay area in the background. Mailed from Richmond, California to C.J. Shimmick of Minneapolis, Minnesota on August 29, 1960: Read More →
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