By 1923, the name was officially set with the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District Act. This act created a special district for the bridge’s construction. The bridge is 1.7 miles long ...

Despite their city's obvious need to expand, a number of San Franciscans opposed Joseph Strauss' quest to build the Golden Gate Bridge ... to "a 13 years' war... a long and torturous march." ...

Irving Morrow romanticized the Golden Gate long before he became a consulting architect on the bridge that would span it. The narrow strait, he wrote in 1919, "is caressed by breezes from the blue ...

The Golden Gate Bridge's vaulting, orange arches amidst the rocky seascape of the San Francisco Bay have made it one of the West Coast's most enduring symbols and the city's most popular tourist ...

While the Golden Gate Bridge has safely resisted eight decades of winds whipping from the west into San Francisco Bay, engineers were still concerned about the long term viability of the bridge ...