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Surfing San Francisco's Fort Point is like riding the ultimate novelty wave. This is the story of a surfer, sucked out to sea ...
Old railings New Railings [via Marin Independent ... including the modification to the westmost railing (visible in the Golden Gate Bridge District’s wind tunnel testing video, on the left ...
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 ...
As Strauss announced triumphantly, "The Golden Gate Bridge, the bridge which could not ... at Muir Woods National Monument, a protected old-growth redwood forest on the Marin headlands.
At its most prepared, Fort Point bristled with weaponry: nine 10-inch and seventeen 8-inch Columbiads, eleven 32-pounder ...
The Old Guard Not everyone welcomed the bridge plan. Its opponents were known collectively as the "Old Guard." The Golden Gate Ferry Company feared the bridge would destroy its prospering business.
The Golden Gate Bridge killed commuter ferries to Marin by ... and Leonoudakis loved the old boats enough to become the leader of a politically-risky campaign to launch the Golden Gate Ferry ...
China's Huajiang Grand Canyon Bridge is a whopping nine times higher than the Golden Gate Bridge and twice the height of the Eiffel Tower. The nail-biting footage shows construction workers at the ...
INSTRUMENTS have recently been installed on the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco for accurate recording of movements that occur under wind loads (Earthquake Notes, 14, Nos. 1 and 2 ; 1942).