I worked at SFO and OAK when I got out of the USAF in 85, It was night work 12-8, commuted from Vacaville, I remember that the double decker bridge reminded me of my home in philly, we have one near our Airport; of course, that one isn't going over the Beautiful SF Bay...But the double deckness of it just always reminded me...The traffic heading in at 6 AM from Vallejo to the bridge was staggering...Most of the time they'd be stopped...3 hours wasn't unusual for them to commute...We didn't have that problem at midnight!
@tnate60043 жыл бұрын
It was how I came into SF when I moved there. While the Golden Gate gets all the attention, my heart will always be with the workhorse Bay Bridge.
@darkkiss72477 жыл бұрын
I was born and lived in the Bay Area for 40 years. I crossed the old bridge countless times.
@chrisfitzmaurice74844 жыл бұрын
My old gaffer got court-martialed for looping the OBB early on in WW2. The guys in his squadron said it couldn' t be looped. Dad called bs and set out to prove them wrong. I bet there was some money involved too. At the appointed hour he showed up in his plane and looped it! Unfortunately a newspaper photographer was there and took some pics that went front page the next day. The Navy command got the number of the plane and that evening dad was in the brig for willful and reckless disobedience of orders. But the Navy didn't figure on my grandmother. She knew an Army general - and got him to intervene for my father. The court-martial was dropped but he was kicked out of the Navy. He then applied to the Army Air Corp and was accepted there. But as a NCO. LOL! He ended up flying C46's and C47's over the Himalayas on the India-China-Burma route; where he got into trouble again, for stealing a Jeep to go tiger hunting. A true Irishman! I think about him a lot.
@danieldougan2693 жыл бұрын
The old bridge served a great purpose. But the new bridge is gorgeous, spectacular, and (most importantly) much safer than the old one. Both are marvels of engineering.
@Dog.soldier19503 жыл бұрын
My father was an iron worker on this bridge
@cynthiacarter5328 ай бұрын
Grew up there from 1954-1975. I remember being about 4 with my dad on the street car to Oakland on the bottom deck along with the trucks. The cars were on the top deck. I loved it!
@georgesenda19525 жыл бұрын
Thanks to the brave men who built the original bridge and allowed us to cross it for years. I wish they had put the troll on the new bridge but people have no sense of history or humor. They put it in some museum or something.
@blakedmc1989HD3 жыл бұрын
i herd parts of it are in a museum
@rr7firefly8 жыл бұрын
Some of us will miss the old bridge between Oakland and Yerba Buena Island. The new tower span may be modern and safer but it lacks any gutsy character and it further erases the memory of the venerable old trains that crossed the Bay on the bridge's lower level until 1958.
@Mrruneight Жыл бұрын
The Oakland Bay Bridge lives on in Train Simulator Classic's Sacramento Northern Railroad Route. Long live the Oakland Bay Bridge!
@Glenonica13 жыл бұрын
I haven't been in California for about 8 yrs, the Bay Bridge was the heart of the area. When I go back someday I will miss seeing it's structure.
@espathis7 жыл бұрын
man i miss going on this brige :(
@Daring2Win4 жыл бұрын
Some of my earliest fond memories were crossing that giant going to Grandmommy's in the valley then returning home [San Francisco]. So long.
@tommyc77294 жыл бұрын
Grandmommy. I think that sounds so cute 😊
@austinhunt51903 жыл бұрын
My mom lives in San Francisco and I live In Modesto so I get it
@Daring2Win3 жыл бұрын
@@tommyc7729 Aw, thanks. lol. that's what we all called that regally powerful yet meek & humble blessing of a woman.
@cambridgeh.lutece66584 жыл бұрын
Until 1958, three interurban electric railroads ran on the bottom deck of the Bay Bridge on 2 tracks to the Transbay Terminal! Plus at 1:37 you can see the even older ferry terminal, which two of the railroads used to service until 1939, when the railway on the bridge opened (after delays). !
@cambridgeh.lutece66584 жыл бұрын
@Archer Stanton At 1:37 it shows the old Key System's ferry mole, at the right. It handled Key System and Sacramento Northern trains as well as ferries to the Ferry Building in San Francisco. It held out until the end of the 1939 Worlds Fair, in which it was promptly demolished. Its not the Ferry Building, its the Key Mole.
@GrnArrow09210 жыл бұрын
It's sad to see this old bridge go. I remember crossing over it a few times when I was a kid back in the 1980's. I can also remember when the earthquake of 1989 damaged it, causing a piece of the upper deck to fall onto the lower deck. I lived out in Fairfield at the time and felt that 6.9 earthquake shake the apartment. I'll never forget that day.
@zakkrick9 жыл бұрын
I live in Stockton, we felt it over here too and I could remember the earthquake when it hit SF, I was in the 4th grade when it happened, now I'm 35
@minhnguyen58617 жыл бұрын
no one asks bless new things but the old no more safe my steps
@godbluffvdgg4 жыл бұрын
:)...Good ol Fairfield...I was at Travis 82-85...I lived in Vacaville though...It was such a farm town back then...I took my wife there on our honeymoon in the 90's...I didn't recognize ANYTHING! :)
@godbluffvdgg4 жыл бұрын
@Tom Smith :)..I remember them wel!l...Going to Sac from Vacaville, you'd go past them all the time...I was there 82-86... I got married in 93...I was so lost; EVERYthing was so different! The Nut Tree had a Great Restaurant...I lived next door to a guard from Vacaville, and knew a few in the neighborhood...Do you still live there or when were you in that area?
@godbluffvdgg4 жыл бұрын
@Tom Smith Man oh man, I think I've had quite a life, until I read someone like you! :)... 66 going to the Nam! How's your health? I hope you're still going strong! Good health and freedom to you and yours...Texas is a great state too...And per capita; the prettiest girls in the U.S!
@louisjones26533 жыл бұрын
I miss The Bay so much, it will always be home.
@paulg3513 жыл бұрын
I moved to the Bay Area in 1989 2 months before the big earthquake and remember the damage, alot of history with that bridge.
@flasher16633 жыл бұрын
It remains to be seen wether the new one lasts as long as the old one
@hungrysoles3 жыл бұрын
The old bridge is more handsome than the new bridge. It should have been restored. The new bridge is hideous like many modern kinds of bridges. I hope there are no plans to replace the Golden Gate Bridge with a modern replacement.
@kineticdeath7 жыл бұрын
the new bridge doesnt look as cool, i love those big boxy steel girder bridges!
@robertpreskop44256 жыл бұрын
kineticdeath those boxy steel girder bridges were found to be too rigid for seismically active areas like coastal California.
@kineticdeath4 жыл бұрын
@Archer Stanton I was refering only from a visual stand point, of course im not even trying to be en engineer saying "better to make it x". Just like the space shuttle was an impressive thing to watch on launch. We all know how unsafe and overly expensive that was too
@KornienkoR3 жыл бұрын
Спасибо за видео
@Anormalrandom3 ай бұрын
I remember in like 2016 looking to the right, asking my parents, what is that? It’s a demolition I will never forget
@michaelminton12249 жыл бұрын
I had to do the same thing with my Lego Grand Carousel in order to pack it away in its box for a move but in big pieces to make reassembling quicker while still using the instruction book. Disassembling took about an hour or two.
@InfinityPets9 жыл бұрын
My dad used to go to UC Berkeley
@timruskowski49238 жыл бұрын
congrats
@rust-0hspray1565 жыл бұрын
So is the west side of the bridge going to make the next earthquake? Who knows it’s too pretty to take down
@josephastier74216 жыл бұрын
I remember driving in that thing. The Cypress freeway structure too. I am older than time.
@she-wolfoflorien34715 жыл бұрын
Me too!!!!😉👍
@wonderglory9 жыл бұрын
Currently, the Oakland Museum of California is having some applications for Bay Bridge steel to be reused for public art projects.
@garkar9082 жыл бұрын
When i heard that engineer say, that they cant do what they did back in the day when bridge was built. Said it is to " complicated" lmfao 😂 Bridge is over 80 yrs old, basically saying that todays engineers are fkn worthless 🙄
@rolfstamenov99145 жыл бұрын
Every fucking Ribbit hand riveted dude......... RIP CASTRO VALLEY NATIVE
@kerribethmoore28657 жыл бұрын
I feel so Bad for the People who worked hard on the Old Bridge and if they were still alive I bet they would be upset because they worked hard on the bridge.
@Africanfrogs6 жыл бұрын
Infrastructure is meant to be replaced and repaired
@Africanfrogs6 жыл бұрын
By the time that bridge was complete the method of construction was obsolete
@black.pewdiepie4154 жыл бұрын
@@Africanfrogs yo user name cap
@egs-zh3dt8 жыл бұрын
why not use TNT?
@e.b.99528 жыл бұрын
it would fall in the bay and make a big mess and kill everyone on the bridge, and it would mess up the building of the new bridge. It would also mess with the tension and make a huge steel stress ball. This isn't Minecraft.
@atsf49316 жыл бұрын
E.B. Recently a bridge got demolished out here using tnt and the new bridge was also as close to it as the bay bridge but I think it’s more California state laws that forbid it being blown up kzbin.info/www/bejne/lWPZh52DnMSNd8U
@robertpreskop44256 жыл бұрын
Atsf49 you also have the Hayward Fault running nearby and a heavy implosion could possibly cause unwanted seismic activity.
@danielfronc43045 жыл бұрын
@@robertpreskop4425 Ahh, no, not at all although your suggestion that it would impact a fault line provides some well appreciated humor. Any ground/above ground explosions (especially that of a relatively thin steel bridge with many hollow sections) would not in any way be felt at the level or have any impact on a fault line miles below the ground's surface. It would take an atomic bomb explosion to transmit seismic forces miles deep. Look at the two WW2 atomic bombings of Japan, which lies on the very active "circle of fire" fault which had no effect on the fault line. Otherwise, they wouldn't be constructing a new bridge at such a "hot zone".
@ROBLOXGamingDavid Жыл бұрын
It is tough, but necessary step. The old bridge is too rigid and may not survive a next major quake, and it was obvious during the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. It was an engineering marvel and i still like that old bridge, but nowadays, i also like the new one as well.
@transientdreams10 жыл бұрын
Thanks. Great video!~
@carmelpule69546 жыл бұрын
I would say that those vertical cables from the main catenery cable to the deck should include a lot of diagonals to form triangles in the web of cables on each side . Those rectangles formed between the main catenery cables and the main deck can change shape and so the deck can support harmonic vibrations along it. Those rectangular spaces between the vertical cables are not much different from those on the Narrow Tacoma bridge. Put is some diagonal cables to include better damping and a more robust bridge will result. About those rectangles being changed to triangles , those who know that a triangle does not change its shape would know why I said what I said.
@daviddixon29455 жыл бұрын
let it go in the water. great fishing holes. :)
@lonnieloveblackdragon3 жыл бұрын
Trains utilized this Bridge.
@Deadchannel991285 ай бұрын
Yup, the key system electric trains used to operate trains on the lower deck of the old bay bridge.
@bahkanada2573 жыл бұрын
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@fewaadeyanju27244 жыл бұрын
are they going to blud a new bring
@danieldougan2693 жыл бұрын
They already built a new bridge. You can see it in this video.
@TheKdizzle19717 жыл бұрын
@0:34 lol
@TheKdizzle19717 жыл бұрын
he said erected
@DCBARNONE896 жыл бұрын
Why is it coming down? I would think with your traffic?
@blakedmc1989HD3 жыл бұрын
because it's not stable enough to withstand another earthquake
@hvymtlsuzan2 жыл бұрын
i belie where that where original it start before the warter they should leave it up for memory
@geomodelrailroader10 жыл бұрын
it is time for the Bay Bridge to retire it has served its purpose but it will not survive the big one it is time for it to be torn down the new Bay Bridge will take over it is structurally sound and can survive a quake.
@peppermintcatsass31416 жыл бұрын
..lol
@Bondovw4 жыл бұрын
China makes good stuff
@geomodelrailroader3 жыл бұрын
@@Bondovw this time they had to the bridge was in an earthquake zone and both the Chinese and Japan know you need to have your structures earthquake proof or the big one will destroy it.
@blakedmc1989HD3 жыл бұрын
@@geomodelrailroader yep
@mitchellj245510 жыл бұрын
Why the hell aren't they imploding it? I always thought that old bridge was ugly. Good thing it's going away. IMHO
@jackprice659910 жыл бұрын
Because then you have to salvage all of that from the bottom of the bay and disrupt shipping traffic and likely cause damage to the new bridge.
@AmericanSirenProductions9 жыл бұрын
Jack Price don't forget the lead paint
@vj31379 жыл бұрын
Mitchell J They aren't blowing it up because they want to protect the Bay so they are taking it down in reverse order.
@chdreturns8 жыл бұрын
It's not ugly... The new bridge is. These old bridges have intricate architectural details and their beauty is in the trusswork... Modern Suspension Bridges if you have seen one you have seen em all.
@SteveCarras8 жыл бұрын
Very good point, chdreturns, and the cantilevers were a product of their OWN artistically beuatiful times! :) Thanks for your comment!
@myphonyaccount5 жыл бұрын
$7,000,000,000 final cost. Same suspension style could have been done with NON-FUNCTIONAL tower and wires for $700,000,000 by DELETING unneeded wide ship crossing space underneath that required costly construction to accommodate. Since ALL tall ships cross under the west span anyway, $6,300,000,000 was WASTED.
@JayMaroni10 жыл бұрын
Cafè Müller Lounge presents "Cafe Crew - Bay Bridge" kzbin.info/www/bejne/boGXnoZsq9FgeNE
@johnbennett37146 жыл бұрын
Why not use the stuff they used to take down the Twin Towers?
@petunia41415 жыл бұрын
a fucking airplane?
@nonic4vic6004 жыл бұрын
I dont think they are going to fly an expensive jet liner into a bridge...
@juliandelreal383 жыл бұрын
Jajajajajja. The old brain washed had to put in his two cents.........
@49ersfaithfulofthebay9 жыл бұрын
1906 San Francesco's first earthquake 1989 San Franciscos second earthquake