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The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the one-mile-wide (1.6 km) strait connecting San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean in California, United States. The structure links San Francisco —the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula —to Marin County , carrying both U.S. Route 101 and California State ...
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The Golden Gate Bridge was closed to automobile traffic while the MMB was being tested. Other languages English: The Golden Gate Bridge Moveable Median Barrier (MMB), also affectionately known as the "median zipper."
The Golden Gate Bridge, which Barrett and Hilp were instrumental in building. Barrett and Hilp was a construction company and general contractor founded in San Francisco by Harold Hilp Sr. and brothers J. Frank and Larry Barrett in 1912. The company played a large part in the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge. [1] [2] [3]
The bridge spans almost two miles across the Golden Gate, the narrow strait where San Francisco Bay opens to meet the Pacific Ocean, connecting the city with Marin County, California. The concept of a Golden Gate Bridge started with a journalist named James Wilking. Wilking promoted the idea that a bridge across the Golden Gate would bring many ...
“People just want a piece of history, a chunk or rivet.”
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We've seen plenty of home features inspired by history, but a front gate that evokes one of the most notorious Nazi concentration camps is pretty extreme. The controversial design was dreamed up ...