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...make modern San Franciscans chuckle, General Manager Clarence Lindner dug up a prophetic cartoon of 1889 which fantastically foretold today's San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, the transport planes and air clippers which now roar in and out of the two cities. For readers of 1987, Manager Lindner had another prophetic sketch prepared. This showed the great Golden Gate Bridge fallen in neglected ruins, San Francisco's skyscrapers abandoned, the city housed in vast, uniform, flat-topped buildings; an "Orient Express" plane arriving at an airport on top of a slender, mile-high column while a "lunar local" rocket...
...suspended under the centre span pending restoration of the safety net, more than half of which was torn away in the crash. Costing $82,000, it had saved eleven workers up to last week. Prior to last week only one life had been lost building this bridge. The San Francisco-Oakland Bridge, built without a net, cost 24 lives...
Describing the construction of the great San Francisco-Oakland Bay bridge, Charles F. Goodrich, chief engineer of the American Bridge Company, will give a public illustrated lecture at the New Lecture Hall tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock...
...issue TIME errs in reporting Governor Merriam used a dirty acetylene torch to cut the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge chain. A brand new Airco-D B emergency cutting outfit was shipped via express from our Jersey City factory for use at this history-making event...
First proposed in 1856, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was not begun until May 1933. To celebrate its opening, California scheduled a three-day fiesta which officially began with speeches at the bridgehead at the Oakland end. Rabbi A. A. Stern offered prayers for the 24 men who lost their lives during construction. Herbert Hoover told how the commission he appointed in 1929 first decided that the bridge was possible. Charles Henderson, an officer of Reconstruction Finance Corp., which financed the bridge with loans of $77,600,000, represented President Roosevelt. Chief Engineer Charles Henry Purcell paid tribute...