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24 unusual facts about Golden Gate Bridge


1981 in Malaysia

23 July - Work Minister S. Samy Vellu announced that the Penang Bridge, Penang would be constructed using the cable-stayed concrete girder of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge instead of the steel-tied arch in the style of the Sydney Harbour Bridge.

Buena Vista Park

At the peak of the park is a small lawn offering views to the east, north, and west, including the Golden Gate Bridge and the Marin Headlands.

Charles Alton Ellis

Charles Alton Ellis (1876–1949) was a professor, structural engineer and mathematician who was chiefly responsible for the structural design of the Golden Gate Bridge.

Charles H. Schneer

Together they made It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955), about a giant octopus that wreaks havoc on the Golden Gate Bridge.

Crazy in Alabama

When the head is discovered by the hostess of a party, Lucille tries to get rid of the head by throwing it off the Golden Gate Bridge.

Daniel Molloy

At the end of this film, Molloy is not bitten by Louis in the house on Divisadero Street, but rather by Lestat in his car while driving over the Golden Gate Bridge.

Eric Steel

After reading about efforts to place a suicide barrier on the Golden Gate Bridge, one of the world's most often used venues for suicide, he had the bridge filmed from multiple locations throughout 2004, to obtain footage of actual suicides.

Furimukeba Ai

Kyoko finds Tetsuo at the top of the hill overlooking the Golden Gate Bridge where they first met.

Huber's equation

Very useful in calculating the span width of the bridges like Golden Gate Bridge or Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, their beam cross-sections, etc.

Irving Morrow

Irving F. Morrow (1884–1952) was an American architect best known for designing the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California.

Jenni Olson

Working on the film led Olson to pen an open letter to the San Francisco Chronicle on the matter of the Golden Gate Bridge's position as the top suicide landmark in the world.

Jesse Kalisher

Prints of his fine art photography are sold at popular American travel destinations including the Grand Canyon, the Golden Gate Bridge, and the Empire State Building.

Johnny Colla

Like many others, Colla patronized the Avalon Ballroom and the Fillmore Auditorium, eventually pursuing his idols and musical dreams over the Golden Gate Bridge into Marin County.

Kevin Briggs

Kevin Briggs (highway patrolman), highway patrolman best known for talking people out of suicide on the Golden Gate Bridge

Landscape with the Fall of Icarus

Eric Steele, whose film The Bridge (2006) documents the suicides of two-dozen people who jumped off the world's most popular suicide site - the Golden Gate Bridge - throughout 2004, has compared images captured in his documentary to those of Bruegel’s Landscape With the Fall of Icarus, because the fatal leaps go almost unnoticed by passersby.

Maximums

Other villains may include the Bug's archenemy Halloween (based on the Green Goblin), although the appearance of Halloween throwing Kristen off the Golden Gate Bridge (modeled after the death of Spider-Man's former girlfriend Gwen Stacy) turned out to be a ploy to distract Superman.

Mill Hill, Trenton, New Jersey

The Roebling steel works made the wire cables used to construct most of the major bridges built in the United States, including the Golden Gate Bridge and George Washington Bridge.

Museum of the City of San Francisco

The Virtual Museum website features major online exhibits on the California Gold Rush, the 1906 earthquake and fire, and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Paige Matthews

Instead, whenever she congregates with an Elder, she orbs to the top of the suspension tower of the Golden Gate Bridge to hold a meeting (though since she has successfully orbed to the Underworld on several occasions, this may have more to do with her personal attitude towards them than a lack of ability).

Patrol Craft Fast

PCF training boats frequently transited from Mare Island, through the Golden Gate Bridge, then either north or south along the coastline.

Terra Prime

Fortunately, Tucker had altered the target, and the beam harmlessly strikes the water near the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Night of Morningstar

She and Ben are held at gun point on a small fishing boat in San Francisco Bay as The Watchmen make final preparations to destroy the Golden Gate Bridge.

Thelen LLP

The firm counseled contractors and developers in a wide range of big ticket infrastructure projects, including the Hoover Dam, the Golden Gate Bridge, the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge and the second stage of Grand Coulee Dam.

There's a Silver Moon on the Golden Gate

"There's a Silver Moon on the Golden Gate" is the official song commemorating the opening the Golden Gate Bridge in May 1937.


ACME and V.I.L.E.

Although the structure of ACME Headquarters varies, it is always located in San Francisco, often being depicted as well within view of San Franciscan landmarks such as the Transamerica Pyramid and the Golden Gate Bridge.

Claremont Canyon Regional Preserve

The steep path up to the ridge gives splendid views across the cities of Berkeley and Oakland, and beyond to San Francisco Bay, the Golden Gate Bridge and San Francisco; on clear days, especially in winter, the Farallon Islands, about 44 miles (70 km) away, can be seen beyond the Golden Gate.

Florence-Roebling, New Jersey

John A. Roebling & Sons company built and provided the steel for the Brooklyn Bridge, the Golden Gate Bridge, as well as numerous other bridges including one over Niagara Falls.

Fort Baker

The Fort, which borders the City of Sausalito in Marin County and is connected to San Francisco by the Golden Gate Bridge, served as an Army post until the mid-1990s, when the headquarters of the 91st Division moved to Parks Reserve Forces Training Area.

Frank Baron

Baron was perhaps best known in the Northern California Bay Area for his structural design work on the Dumbarton, Golden Gate, and Bay Bridges, as well as for his role in designing the roof structure of the St. Mary’s Cathedral in San Francisco.

Hiroaki Aoki

He was an offshore powerboat racer along with the 1986 APBA world champion Powerboat throttleman Errol Lanier, a former Fort Lauderdale fireman who saved his life in a near fatal powerboat crash in 1979 under the Golden Gate Bridge.

Target: Terror

The game involves shooting terrorists attacking various places in the United States, including Denver Airport, the Golden Gate Bridge and Los Alamos National Laboratory.