Golden Gate Bridge
The Golden Gate Bridge is in San Francisco,
California, and it is over San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The American
Society of Civil Engineers declared the bridge one of the wonders of modern
world. . The project cost more than $35 million.
The construction began in January 5th 1933,
and ended in April 19th 1937. The bridge connects San Francisco and
Sausalito (San Francisco metropolitan region). The designer was made by Joseph
Strauss, Irving Morrow and Charles Ellis.
The bridge is 746 ft long and more than a hundred
thousand vehicles go through this bridge every day. The bridge connects San
Francisco to Alcatraz, it is an old prison, before that it was a military base.
It is in an island and now is sightseeing
Since the bridge was ended, the bridge has been closed
four times, because it was winding very much. In 1982, the windy was too strong,
so people could see the bridge moving. In the century XX, San Francisco’s
economy got up, because that started the necessity of connects San Francisco to
the cities around.
About a thousand and six hundred people have killed
themselves, since the bridge was constructed in 1937. Because the suicides, the
company responsible for the bridge decided to construct a net to save people
that wanted to kill themselves.
Some movies did scenes there, how “Monkey Planet,
X-Men 3, Monster vs Alien and 007 - A View to Kill (14th movie)”
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