Untitled - Golden Gate Bridge Construction
January 5, 1935
Newspaper clipping
Publisher unknown

Private Collection
Harvard, IL

From the Julsen Collection

"Nature endowed California with one of the best harbors in the world when she laid the giant horseshoe of San Francisco Bay and cut the Golden Gate at the front calk. At present engineers and their workmen are busy flinging two gigantic bridges across San Francisco Bay - the Golden Gate Bridge and the San Francisco-Oakland Bridge. Both will be world famous; the Golden Gate Bridge will be the longest cable suspension bridge in the world; the Oakland-San Francisco Bridge the longest bridge in the world. To illustrate the immensity of these undertakings 'tis said that the amount of concrete used in the Golden Gate Bridge would be enough to build a five-foot sidewalk from here to New York. The picture below cleverly sketched by Artist Burbank shows the foundation of one of the piers of the Oakland-San Francisco bridge, and above how the steel tower will appear when it sets atop this concrete foundation."