All events are free and open to the public. Major program venues include Crissy Field and Marina Green; additional locations are listed below. The bridge will be open to auto traffic only and there will be no bridge walk. For more details, visit goldengatebridge75.org/celebrate/golden-gate-festival.html.
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One test of a great landmark is its ability to serve as both public icon and private monument. The Golden Gate Bridge excels by both counts, and that’s why we recognize its anniversaries and milestones like we do those of loved ones.
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The Golden Gate Bridge is an icon and a landmark, but beyond that it is a highway. It was built for one reason: to provide a concrete link between Marin and San Francisco. By the late 1920s, both population centers were exploding — San Francisco alone added 290,000 residents between 1900 and 1930 — and demand for car transport by ferry was outstripping supply.
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In “The Love Bug,” Herbie nearly launches himself off the Golden Gate Bridge. In the James Bond film “A View to a Kill,” Max Zorin attempts to kill Bond by flying him into the span. In “X-Men: The Last Stand,” Magneto lifts the bridge from its anchorages and floats it across the Bay before dropping it at the doorstep of Alcatraz.
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The Golden Gate Bridge was never a given. In fact, it was downright controversial. Cost concerns, distaste for the original design, lobbying from distraught ferry companies and worries about hindering Bay navigation all had to be overcome before a plan could be set in motion with the creation of the Golden Gate Bridge and Highway District in 1928.
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