We hope we look this good at 75. The Golden Gate Bridge, the famously orange cable tower bridge connected San Francisco with Marin County for the first time. But the local connecter became a global icon for the city.
On May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge opened for pedestrians.
1. At 75, the bridge, designed by Joseph Strauss, is certainly aging gracefully. That iconic orange color is maintained by constant repainting.
2. There are approximately 1.2 million rivets in the two towers of the Golden Gate Bridge.
3. The two towers of the bridge support cables containing 80,000 miles of steel wire. Together, the cables weigh a whopping 49 million pounds.
4. In its first year, the bridge carried 3,892,063 motor vehicles, 8,000,000 passengers, and in excess of 400,000 pedestrians walked the sidewalks. Today, 110,00 cars cross the bridge daily and sees 10 million visitors a year.
5. It's also the place where over 1,600 people have jumped to their deaths. That grim statistic makes it the
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