GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE Vital Statistic Location: San Francisco, California Completion Date: 1937 Cost: 37 Million Length:8,980

ft(1.7 miles) Type:Suspension Purpose: Roadway Material:Concrete Longest Single Span:4,200 Engineer(s):Charles Alton Ellis,,Clifford Paine, Leon Moisseiff
Summary January 5, 1933, construction to create the Golden Gate Bridge began. April 19, 1937 the construction concluded and the bridge was finished and ready to open. There were many opening festivals to marvel at this new amazing bridge. It costed about 37 million to construct the entire bridge, and the length of this costly bridge is 8,980 feet (1.7 miles). The Golden Gate is a suspension bridge roadway made out of solid steel. Some of the lead engineers where, Charles Alton Ellis, Joseph Strauss, Clifford Paine, and Leon Moisseiff. These engineers helped lead the project to create the amazing bridge you see in San Francisco, California to this day. The bridge is seventy five years old and its birthday is rapidly approaching on May 27th, after May 27th The Golden Gate Bridge will be seventy six years old. To drive across this magnificent bridge there is a toll of six dollars, the golden gate bridge is actually the most famous toll bridge in the United States. The Golden Gate Bridge has been around many years and it has a lot of stories to tell, 1946 the first ever recorded suicide was done off the bridge . Government officials in San Francisco where so upset to see such an iconic bridge used for suicide. That now the bridge is built with higher walls around it to avoid suicides off the bridge in the future since that day only two more suicides where ever recorded. Through all this trouble the bridge looks beautiful during night and day explaining why it is the most photographed bridge in the world. Fun Facts: The Golden Gate Bridge is a toll bridge and costs $6 to pass.

 It turned 76 on May 27th 2013 Its the most photographed bridge in the world 11 men died while working on the Golden Gate Bridge