Building the San Francisco Oakland Bay Bridge (1937)

[@opalyankaBG]

The Golden Gate bridge gets all the attention from documentaries while the Bay bridge is not any less amazing on its own.

[@huntrrams]

I wished the Bay Bridge got more attention too. I love the light show they used on the side of the buildings.

[@Ottertailllll]

My father helped build it. He was 21 at the time.

[@WatchingLakersBasketball]

Thank you to your dad I'm not sure how they made this masterpiece happen with less technology but these dudes were brave and smart. This was no easy task at all.

[@DavidHuber63]

That's awesome!

[@brandobee2264]

Your pops was brave as hell

[@SteveCarras]

@@WatchingLakersBasketball I wonder how he’d feel up in heaven about the new replacement eastern span. The 1989 quake wild have needed abt replacement but I woull lol s goodness for a different unused type- like an overhead arch - a la Long Beach termina isle/Vincent Thomas, New York Bayonne and he’ll gate and Sydney Australia Melbourne bridge or whatever it’s called for a cantilever bridge replacement for the oh gee eastern crossing

[@TheCloakedTiger]

Its amazing how we built these things back in the day with only pencil and paper and now we are designing things with all this technology! However... It seems like the things built with all this tech have mistakes and problems that come with it... Sometimes I wonder: What if we stuck with the pencil and paper method of building things? Would it make people want to get it exactly right?

[@CaliforniaMappingandWD29214]

San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge are my favorite bridges

[@trishanippe8860]

Absolutely amazing

[@strew8]

The Emlenton bridge is a steel arch bridge. I worked on it in 1968.

[@Leebear2006]

Great Video!

[@TK0O0O0O0]

So cool

[@cheshzone5281]

The cantilever sections replaced by the new quake resistant roadway with the cute suspension . How an estimated 800 million project ran over budget by 5 billion is a mystery.....5 billion extra and delays allowed the "milking" to continue ......

[@JaRa911]

Who cares as long as it was built properly this bridge already moved more than 10x what it cost to build

[@kwd3109]

​@@JaRa911The taxpayers in California care. By the way, the new bridge span was built with cheaper red chinese steel instead of American steel because Caltrans wanted to "save" money, yet the project still ran 5 billion over budget because greedy democrats love to waste money.

[@nathanielmirandanathanielm9982]

That's crazy

[@chrisb15679]

👏👍

[@brandobee2264]

The frisco span is still up to this day. Oakland side needed to be fixed in the 80s.

[@mattklein5498]

What's "Frisco" mean? There's a city we call "The City" or SF or San Francisco but, there ain't no "Frisco" that I know

[@brandobee2264]

@@mattklein5498 you a gentrifier be quiet lmfao

[@mattklein5498]

@@brandobee2264 Whats Imfao, you a dont know no WTFYOU T_IN BOUT

[@brandobee2264]

@@mattklein5498 you a loser

[@brandobee2264]

@@mattklein5498 and I’m headed to FRISCO after I get off work you crusty clown