The Golden Gate Bridge, a feat of engineering, opened to pedestrians on this day in history, May 27, 1937. An estimated 200,000 people paid $0.25 each to cross the bridge.
An estimated 18,000 people were waiting to cross the bridge before it opened to foot traffic, the website for the Golden Gate Bridge Highway and Transportation District notes.
At the time it opened, the Golden Gate Bridge had the longest single span in the world, something Toole called the"final accomplishment of an engineering achievement without equal or comparison," in the souvenir program."To every stranger who sees it for the first time the wonder of its size, of its beauty and its grace will be an imperishable memory," wrote Toole.
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