1987 Golden Gate Anniversary crowd - photo

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And amazingly, not a single person jumped from the bridge that day...

[Frank S]

And amazingly, not a single person jumped from the bridge that day...

In that crowd they would have more likely been tossed of the bridge instead of having to jump.
The weight of the 300,000 people flattened the normally arched roadbed, although bridge engineers later said there was never any real danger.

"""The Golden Gate Bridge, all 419,000 tons of it, groaned and swayed like an old wooden plank thrown across a ditch," Montgomery wrote. "Frightened and seasick people vomited on their shoes."

According to Montgomery, people began throwing bicycles and strollers off the bridge in order to lighten the load on the bridge.

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"There were cheers as some people started to hurl bicycles over the railing," he wrote. "A stroller tumbled down and sank beneath the waves 220 feet below. 'Throw the baby, too,' people yelled, laughing. These were probably the bridge walkers trapped on the sidewalk of a roadbed 95 feet wide, with only a 4-foot railing between them and eternity."""