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1987 Golden Gate Anniversary crowd.
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Previously:
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...109#post141264
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...845#post163878
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...080#post195263
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...9677#post89811
https://www.homemadetools.net/forum/...662#post190015
...I was there...now, I wonder of I can find us...seriously, and 2 weeks later I emigrated to Australia...cheers
Jim
And amazingly, not a single person jumped from the bridge that day...
Found you, to the left of Waldo.......Quote:
Originally Posted by Beserkleyboy
In that crowd they would have more likely been tossed of the bridge instead of having to jump.Quote:
Originally Posted by Duke_of_URL
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.
MORE: Golden Gate Bridge hike approved. Get ready for $9 tolls.
"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."""
I had a girlfriend in Sac and we made a round trip to San Francisco and of course drove across the bridge. It was a great experience going down to Fisherman's Wharf and eating this huge fish sandwich then going to see the sub and WWII merchant ship. She wanted me to move to Sac but I would have had to move out by now. The gun control laws, high taxes, cost of living, socialist policies and now the homeless is more than I can tolerate.