When the Daisy Gadsby became hopelessly entangled two months into the installation, the net ran in double thickness in an east-west direction between Alcatraz and the Golden Gate Bridge.

The Golden Gate Bridge, a modern feat of engineering during the Great Depression, opened to the public on this day in history, May 27, 1937. "The biggest task that ever challenged the genius ...

On Jan. 5, 1933, construction began on San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge before it became what was then the world's longest suspension bridge, and what was yet to become one of the wonders of the ...