30 Workers Fell While Building the Golden Gate Bridge
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Published 2017-12-22
From the Series: America in Color: The 1930s bit.ly/2hwYyUR
All Comments (21)
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$35 million, 30 falls, 19 saves, 11 deaths, biggest suspension bridge at the time, good pay? I say it was the safest project of its time
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Golden Gate Bridge: exists Every movie: Nice bridge you got there, would be a shame if something happened to it.
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"We need more women working these types of jobs" said no feminist ever.
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The fact that you have battleships going under the bridge is just awesome!
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Ten of eleven workers who died in falls were killed on February 17, 1937 in the same event. A scaffold holding 12 men fell into the safety net, but the equipment was too heavy and the net gave way. Two out of twelve workers who fell that day survived, but ten died.
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The men that fell into the safety net that lived belonged to the "halfway to hell" club as it was known.
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Even back then, 35 million for that huge ass bridge seems a bargain.
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Imagine being in the safety net, must’ve been scary.
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Back when the US was building state of the art infrastructure. Those days are long gone.
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I hope that they Memorialized those men's names on something connected to that thing? Those brave men who died working on that bridge deserve to be remembered throughout history. Put up some sort of metal plaque permanentally attacked to that bridge.
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My dumbass would probably find a way to accidentally fall off the thing when standing in the middle of the completely road
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I lived close to an old fellow, deaf he was, the man told me about working on the bridge, and showed me some of his pictures. I did enjoy talking to him - well mostly listening.Older people have a lot of knowledge, so listen.
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I was looking forward to a full documentary.
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Construction Worker, a job with such high risk of injuries/death and so physically straining yet to essential to the world. It deserves way more respect and appreciation, not only for the effort, but also the victims
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All the poor souls lost building this bridge and all the souls lost jumping from it. Rest in peace.
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Wow they managed to build that in 3 years!?!? Current construction of minor shit like road construction, pipe replacement, new overpass or roads take fucking forever now. It took 2 years for just a small apt to be built in the city yet these ppl back then with less technology was able to build a huge fucking bridge in 3!?!?
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I just think it’s amazing that such a feat was accomplished in the 1930’s. Crazy how advanced we already were nearly 100 years ago
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When you realize the Golden Gate Bridge was built in less time than the pharmacy behind my house
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USS Maryland at 1:27
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I still would've died from a heart attack, even if I landed in the net
