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San Francisco-Oakland Bay Brid ge, Golden Gate Bridge and Golden Gate International Exposition
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NIE INTERNATIONAL EX
NICIO9 1939
1939 A Pageant of the Pacific' 1939
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THREE $200,000,000 "HISTORY-MAKING" PROJECTS IN SAN FRANCISCO BAY
BY SIDNEY KESSLER SE
COPYRIGHT 1939
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge
The concrete and steel used in this
project would build 35 structures of the
size of the mammoth city hall of Los
Angeles.
XPOSITION
crosses
The bridge has a total length of 8 miles,
including approaches. It
largest body of navigable water that
justifies so huge an outlay, $78,000,000.
It consists of two tandem suspension
bridges, 2310 ft. long each, joined to the
widest vehicular bore in the country, the
Yerba Buena Tunnel, and then followed
by a 1400 ft. cantilever span, 5 truss
spans 509 ft. long each and reaches land
through 14 deck spans.
Golden Gate Bridge
The longest Single Span Suspension
Bridge in the World. The main span
across the Golden Gate is 4200 ft. long
-almost a mile. 746 ft. tall each, the
two towers are the highest bridge towers
in the world. (The famous Eifel Tower
in Paris is 1000 ft.) It is the only bridge
at the entrance of an important commer-
cial harbor and affords a glorious view
unequalled anywhere.
Golden Gate International Exposition
and Pageant of Progress.
$40,000,000 of splendor and progress,
rising from the Bay through dredging.
It will open in 1939, a "show place" in-
deed. It will have the most unique light-
ing and illumination ever devised. Sub-
sequently the site will be used as a
Municipal Airport.
