Golden Gate Bridge
Art deco suspension bridge spanning a strait, painted a bold red-orange against sea and fog.
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About this audio guide
This guide to the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco starts on a February morning in 1937, when a stripping platform came loose beneath twelve workers and the safety net built by chief engineer Joseph Strauss caught the fall. It traces the net's own story first, the roughly $130,000 rope web strung during the Depression that had already saved nineteen men known as the Halfway to Hell Club. You'll also hear how the bridge's signature red-orange color began as ordinary rust-proofing primer an architect refused to paint over.
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