"The gate seemed more open before the bridge," said Randolph Delehanty ... hidden valleys and canyons under the strait. The exhibit also shows the Golden Gate as a natural wonder.

On Jan. 5, 1933, construction began on the Golden Gate Bridge before it would become the longest ... suspension span and had been built across a strait that critics said was too treacherous ...

Watkins/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) The bridge, which was constructed ... s waterfront dominated by a freeway? Before it was called the Golden Gate, the strait had been named Boca del Puerto ...

Technically, the Golden Gate Strait had been crossed—but the bridge wouldn’t open to traffic ... account for birds that were able to fly off before dying, resulting in estimates that were ...

The iconic International Orange bridge was erected 80 years ago, spanning the narrow Golden Gate Strait – from which ... San Francisco to Marin County. Before it was built, the only way across ...

The idea for a bridge across the Golden Gate Strait, where the Pacific Ocean flows ... He was pulled so deep that his ears bled before he untangled himself and swam to the surface.

By 1870, people had realized the necessity of building a bridge spanning the Golden Gate Strait to connect the city of San Francisco with Marin County. However, it was another half-century before ...

The Golden Gate Bridge’s name isn’t from the Gold Rush. It actually comes from the Golden Gate Strait. Explorer John C. Frémont named it in the mid-1800s. The term “Golden Gate” means a ...

The suspension bridge spans the Golden Gate, the narrow strait of turbulent water that separates the Pacific Ocean from San Francisco Bay. It connects the City of San Francisco in the south with ...

It's built above the Golden Gate Strait, the entrance to the ... take great pride in watching over this bridge. "People took care of this place before I got here, since 1937," Dellarocca says.