Photos: Happy 83rd birthday, Golden Gate Bridge! World-famous span opened to pedestrians on May 27, 1937, and more than 200,000 visitors came its first day ...

The images are real, but they are from the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1987. On June 14, 2025, millions of people across the U.S. showed up for the "No Kings" marches protesting ...

Look back at the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in photos. Expand Opening day on May 27, 1937, was “Pedestrian Day,” with 15,000 people an hour going through the turnstiles, paying 25 ...

Context: The images are real, but they are from the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge in 1987. Millions of protesters showed up in June 2025 for the "No Kings" marches across the U.S ...

At 4,200 feet, the Golden Gate Bridge was the longest suspension bridge built at that point. It required 1. 2 million rivets, 80,000 miles of spliced wire, and 254 steel suspender ropes.

Sept. 2, 1935: Workers install the first section of a huge safety net, at a cost of $98,000, that will extend from shore to shore beneath the Golden Gate Bridge span during construction of the bridge.

Look back at the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in photos. Expand Opening day on May 27, 1937, was “Pedestrian Day,” with 15,000 people an hour going through the turnstiles, paying 25 ...