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'''Aerial view of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge under construction in 1935.''' | '''Aerial view of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge under construction in 1935. The old [[Key System and March of Progress|Key System "mole"]] where trains met ferries is visible beneath the eastern span near top of photo.''' | ||
''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA'' | ''Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA'' | ||
Revision as of 23:34, 6 January 2013
Unfinished History
Aerial view of the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge under construction in 1935. The old Key System "mole" where trains met ferries is visible beneath the eastern span near top of photo.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Bay Bridge west span under construction, 1935.
Photo: Joseph Marty
East span under construction, 1935.
Photo: Joseph Marty
Workers on the Bay Bridge in 1935.
Photo: San Francisco History Center, San Francisco Public Library, San Francisco, CA
Maintenance workers hang precariously over bay in 1994.
Photo: Rick Gerharter
Lewis Mumford on the Bay Bridge:
"The Bay Bridge, between San Francisco and Oakland, brought far greater damage than benefits to both cities: it pumped up a once unnecessary volume of private traffic between them, at a great expense in expressway building and at a great waste in time and tension, spent crawling through rush-hour congestion. This traffic eventually wiped out, by impoverishment, the excellent rapid transit that had been installed on the Bay Bridge [the Key System] a form of transportation that the citizens of San Francisco have now repentantly voted to restore [the BART system], at an expense far greater than the cost of the original system. The ferry ride across the bay from Oakland was one of the regions greatest recreational resources — an incomparable experience, so exhilarating, at almost any time of the day, that one often sought an excuse for making the journey. It was not a long ride — not more than twenty-five minutes or so, and certainly not longer than the present depressing rush-hour crawl over the bridge."
-- Lewis Mumford, 1963
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View of San Francisco and Bay Bridge from canoe, 1996.
Video: Chris Carlsson
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A 1937 16'42" film sponsored by U.S. Steel about the building of the Bay Bridge
Source: Prelinger Archives
South Park and Rincon Hill continues
