[kuifje]

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Construction began on January 5, 1933. The project cost more than $35 million. The Golden Gate Bridge construction project was carried out by the McClintic-Marshall Construction Co., a subsidiary of Bethlehem Steel Corporation founded by Howard H. McClintic and Charles D. Marshall, both of Lehigh University.

Strauss remained head of the project, overseeing day-to-day construction and making some groundbreaking contributions. A graduate of the University of Cincinnati, he placed a brick from his alma mater's demolished McMicken Hall in the south anchorage before the concrete was poured. He innovated the use of movable safety netting beneath the construction site, which saved the lives of many otherwise-unprotected steelworkers. Of eleven men killed from falls during construction, ten were killed (when the bridge was near completion) when the net failed under the stress of a scaffold that had fallen. Nineteen others who were saved by the net over the course of construction became proud members of the (informal) Half Way to Hell Club.

The project was finished by April 1937, $1.3 million under budget.

With the death of Jack Balestreri in April 2012, all workers involved in the original construction are now deceased.

[rabenson]

Great pics
The bridge is a masterpiece.

[RedneckR0nin]

Sweet set. If you want I have posted the video called the bridge. It's about suicide jumpers from the Golden Gate. Powerful film.

[Parannoyed]

My fucking legs would be going like a shitting dog if i was the fella in the first pic

[thissiteisfuckedup]

truly amazing set of pics, look at the cranes right up top, how the fuck did they get those up there.

[RedneckR0nin]

Originally Posted by thissiteisfuckedup ↗

truly amazing set of pics, look at the cranes right up top, how the fuck did they get those up there.

Very fucking carefully

[Oswald2001]

Even today, all these years later, it's still an incredible feat of engineering.

[RedneckR0nin]

Originally Posted by Oswald2001 ↗

Even today, all these years later, it's still an incredible feat of engineering.

There are quite a few that fit in that category in my eyes. The Apollo missions and all that it entailed, Hoover Dam, Panama Canal to name a couple. Makes you wonder sometime how the fuck we ever got this far...a miracle I figure but collective information is a wonderful thing a'int it?

[Dynamo47]

Great photos! I had seen the bridge only from Alcatraz before (not as an inmate). Truly a beautiful work of engineering.

[icheerthebull]

great thread