• History

• Architect Irving Morrow

• Engineering design by Joseph Strauss, and Charles Ellis
• Construction start January 5, 1933
• Construction end April 19, 1937
• Opened May 27, 1937; 80 years ago
• On January 5, 1933, construction begins on the Golden Gate Bridge, as workers began
excavating 3.25 million cubic feet of dirt for the structure’s huge anchorages.
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• Following the Gold Rush boom that began in 1849, speculators realized the land north of
San Francisco Bay would increase in value in direct proportion to its accessibility to the
city. Soon, a plan was hatched to build a bridge that would span the Golden Gate, a
narrow, 400-foot deep strait that serves as the mouth of the San Francisco Bay, connecting
the San Francisco Peninsula with the southern end of Marin County.
GOLDEN GATE BRIDGE
• Structure
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• Design Art Deco, Suspension, truss arch & truss causeways
• Material Steel
• Total length 8,981 ft (2,737.4 m),[2] about 1.7 mi (2.7 km)
• Width 90 ft (27.4 m)
• Height 746 ft (227.4 m)
• Longest span 4,200 ft (1,280.2 m)[3]
• Clearance above 14 ft (4.3 m) at toll gates, Trucks cannot pass
• Clearance below 220 ft (67.1 m) at high tide The total bridge weight listed for 1986 includes
the reduction in weight due to the redecking in 1986. The weight of the original reinforced
concrete deck and its supporting stringers was 166,397 tons (150,952,000 kg). The weight of the
new orthotropic steel plate deck, its two inches of epoxy asphalt surfacing, and its supporting
pedestals is now 154,093 tons (139,790,700 kg). This is a total reduction in weight of the deck of
12,300 tons (11,158,400 kg), or 1.37 tons (1133 kg) per lineal foot of deck.
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• Golden Gate Park, located in San Francisco, California,
United States, is a large urban park consisting of
1,017 acres (412 ha) of public grounds. It
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• Walls of Constantinople (redirect from Golden Gate
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• provide often contradictory information. Only three
gates, the Golden Gate, the Gate of Rhegion and the
Gate of Charisius, can be established directly from