Golden Gate Walkway
by Emmy Marie Vickers
Title
Golden Gate Walkway
Artist
Emmy Marie Vickers
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Photo taken on Monday Feb 02, 2014. This is the iconic Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, CA. It was a lot of fun walking it and taking photos.
HISTORY: The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate strait, the mile-wide, three-mile-long channel between San Francisco Bay and the Pacific Ocean. The structure links the U.S. city of San Francisco, on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula, to Marin County, bridging both U.S. Route 101 and California State Route 1 across the strait. The bridge is one of the most internationally recognized symbols of San Francisco, California, and the United States. It has been declared one of the Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers.
The Frommers travel guide considers the Golden Gate Bridge "possibly the most beautiful, certainly the most photographed, bridge in the world". It opened in 1937 and had until 1964 the longest suspension bridge main span in the world, at 4,200 feet (1,280 m).
The dimensions of the bridge defied all imagination. The total length of the bridge is 8,981ft or 2,737 m. The main span between the two enormous towers is 4,200 ft or 1,280 meters long, making the Golden Gate Bridge the world's largest suspension bridge.
A record that would stand until 1964 when the Verrazano-Narrows bridge in New York was completed.
The two beautiful Art Deco towers are almost 820ft or 250 meters tall, of which more than 20 meters is below the sea level. The road, six lanes and 90 ft / 27m wide is an amazing 220 ft or 67 meters above the water level. It is supported by enormous cables, anchored in hundreds of bars locked into concrete blocks with a pulling power of 25 million kg. The two cables have a total length of 2,332 meters and a diameter of 90 cm. They are woven from 27,572 threads of steel with a total length that equals three times the earth's circumference. Emmy Vickers,
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PHOTO FEATURED IN:
(1) 3 A Day Greeting Cards for All Occasions - 02/06/2014
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Comments (4)
Kathi Mirto
Fantastic capture Emmy, the strong sky color is a perfect backdrop for the orange bridge! fl
Emmy Vickers
Wow - another feature! Thanks Darren Fisher for featuring this photo in your "3 A Day Greeting Cards for All Occasions." It's an honor and a privilege! I am enjoying commenting on others as well. Thanks a million for the exposure! I really appreciate all you do!
Robert Bales
Such beautiful color Emmy with great composition!! v/f/t
Emmy Marie Vickers replied:
Thank you so much Robert for the compliment! As always, I am honored to receive your v/f/t. Wow - thanks a million!
Clif Jackson
Emmy, congratulations on such a magnificent view and captivating info of this magnificent structure. I had the dubious pleasure of driving across it in bumper-to-bumper traffic in 1960 while on my way to catch a flight to Korea. You captured it beautifully!
Emmy Marie Vickers replied:
Hi Clif, thank you so much for the compliment! That is awesome. It is quite a beautiful site. I was certainly watching the cars driving over it. Some folks in awe, while others you can tell they were locals. Thanks for sharing Clif.