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    Posted 3 years ago

    dav2no1
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    50th Anniversary of Golden Gate Bridge- SF

    WHEN: May 24, 1987
    LENGTH: 1.7 miles long
    WHERE: San Francisco, California
    PHOTOGRAPHER: Bob Kreisel

    This is a photograph taken by Bob Kreisel on May 24th, 1987 of the 50th anniversary of the Golden Gate Bridge.

    MORE THAN EXPECTED
    On May 24th, 1987 the event celebrating the bridge's 50th anniversary anticipated a crowd of 80,000 people, but instead an estimated 800,000 people showed up!

    HUMAN GRIDLOCK
    Approximately 300,000 people actually engaged in the walk across the bridge resulting in shoulder to shoulder human gridlock. People could not move and were stuck like this for over 2 hours!

    POTENTIAL DISASTER
    The combined weight of the 300,000 people flattened the normally arched roadbed. This caused all 419,000 tons of the bridge to groan and sway. The motion made some seasick and the noise frightened everyone.

    PANIC STARTS
    Panic begins and people starting throwing bicycles and baby strollers over the rail and 220 feet to the water below. Sone people were injuried, but no one died and the bridge was not damaged from the event.

    FACTS
    The Golden Gate Bridge, opened on May 27th, 1937 at a cost of just under $27 million.

    The bridge spans almost two miles across the Golden Gate, the narrow strait where San Francisco Bay opens to meet the Pacific Ocean.

    Each of the bridge's towers have approximately 600,000 rivets.

    It took four years to build and 11 men lost their lives during that time.

    DON'T DO IT
    Over 1500 people have jumped off the bridge, including at least 7 known jumpers in 2021.

    Amazingly.. hitting the water at around 75 mph, more than 30 bridge jumpers have actually survived their attempts. Even if you survived the jump and internal injuries, you would still face drowning and hypothermia

    There are 11 crisis counseling telephones on the bridge that connect to trained suicide prevention counselors. Over 118 people have been talked down from jumping.

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    Comments

    1. BHIFOS BHIFOS, 3 years ago
      Very interesting. I had to goggle for more info, the below shows it was a tad more crowded than the above :)

      https://www.sfgate.com/local-donotuse/article/Golden-Gate-bridge-walk-1987-anniversary-disaster-13896571.php#photo-17549621
    2. dav2no1 dav2no1, 3 years ago
      Pretty scary story huh? Can imagine not being able to move and have the bridge sway and groan. I've been to a few heavy metal concerts and know whats it's like to be in a crowded area...
    3. keramikos, 3 years ago
      dav2no1, Cool picture. :-)

      However, I am ever so glad I wasn't at that event. Count me among those who would have freaked out if the bridge had started groaning and swaying while I was on it. >8-0
    4. RichmondLori RichmondLori, 3 years ago
      Boy do I remember this day, they never anticipated the attraction of the celebration - as you have stated above. the bridge bowed from the weight of the people .
    5. dav2no1 dav2no1, 3 years ago
      Wow..were you on the bridge?
    6. dav2no1 dav2no1, 3 years ago
      Apparently they installed a new railing and it's making noises...

      https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/dec/17/golden-gate-bridge-eerie-hum-silenced-2022?utm_source=fark&utm_medium=website&utm_content=link&ICID=ref_fark
    7. ho2cultcha ho2cultcha, 3 years ago
      i went to this party in 1987! i had just moved to oakland for an internship a few months before it. there were so many people on it, that it leveled out! alot of people got scared and they began evacuating people. it was scarey!
    8. ho2cultcha ho2cultcha, 3 years ago
      we were on the marin side which didn't get as awful as the sf side.

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