22.4.08

F I R S TP R E V750NEXTLAST

Golden Gate Bridge From Fort Point
Every 250 FogBay posts I feature the Golden Gate Bridge. This being post number 750 I'll continue my tradition.

While architect Joseph Strauss is generally credited with designing the Golden Gate Bridge, his design was never built. Strauss' original design was ridiculed by the public as ugly and looking like 'two grotesque steel beetles crawling out from either shore." Instead Strauss tapped the talents of his young assistant architect named Irving Morrow, it was Morrow's design which eventually became the bridge we see above. But Morrow is mostly forgotten by history and it is Strauss' statue that graces the entrance to the bridge. Trivia Question: What is Gephydrophobia?

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