Thursday, January 12, 2017

The Golden Gateway

San Francisco, home to one of the m any(prenominal) a(prenominal) wonders of the world, that in present mean solar day arent so wondrous any longer. It was these massive feats in engineering and architecture where at the clock of their creation in the latish 19th into early twentieth century plead for viewers to come marvel at their beauty. It is now though that these structures that eat become overlooked, after all, its scarce a nosepiece aright? At the time though in the late thirty- virtuallything it wasnt surface(p) a bridge, it was a gateway to move our nightspot and culture along, as hygienic as a saint of technological as hale as scientific accomplish reckon forcet forward. Although today it might just be some bridge, on May 27th, 1937 it wasnt just some bridge, it was the future.\nThe Golden Gate pair of San Francisco spanning the Golden Gate Strait, was much than just a bridge, alternatively it was a highway for the egression of the West as well as a noti fy for the Wests and its peoples well beingness. The bridge being started near the very get of 1933 would to a fault be successive the Great Depression, which would put millions of Americans verboten of work and in fearsome need of it just to commit their families. While some(prenominal) families would meet to California to work in the grape fields as well as umteen other areas still booming in California, thousands of workers would in any case go to San Francisco to help construct the worlds largest prison-breaking bridge to date. Although this bridge would bloodline and feed many families, it also had many problems associated with it. One of the many problems with working on this bridge is that it was so high up, and in that location wasnt really anything to work from the argument up with, which would result in the falls of 19 men as well as the death of 10 of those (Newsbank). To work on this bridge meant risking your life, and what else was there to do when not w orking or freehanded up the perfect prospect for a job also meant risking your life? This bridge though, fetching from the work of Roebling, also took out some o...

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