My father told me he flew over it, under it and drove on it. In WWII, he was a line mechanic and pilot trainer. They sent him from Pearl Harbor to San Francisco to fly B-17 bombers back to Hawaii. He told me that you could get in a lot of trouble flying planes under bridges. So, he flew the plane under the bridge. Told me what are they going to do, they were on their way to the Pacific theater and the war!

So is the NCR flag just a hilarious easter egg or did you just make a mistake and use the Fallout New Vegas Flag?

I would love to hear about what's inside the towers of the San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge

4 years to build a bridge that was shipped from PA in the 1930's.... Over 6 years for modern CA to construct a net on it to curve the suicide attempts. Oh, how far we've come.

The US Navy had issues with the building of a bridge. Due to the risk of ship collisions. Wanted the bridge to be painted with yellow stripes!

As a native of the Bay Area I found interest in your video, however I do believe I have a few points to make to go along with it. In the beginning when you were talking about the sailing ships back in the 1500's, that sailed along the coast looking for the entrance to the bay, while in the fog. And they actually had a guiding structure in the form of a 300 foot tall Redwood tree that on a semi clear day could be scene miles out at sea. The tree grew right on the highest point on the hills across the bay in Oakland. This tree along with many others in the area were in the range of 2500 to 3000 years old, and unfortunately they were all cut down by the 1860's. Back in 1937 the bridge was completed and my father along with his best friend decided to play hooky and went down to the ferry in Oakland and went across the Bay to the port of San Francisco then walked about 1 1/2 miles to the bridge, on the opening day. It cost 25 cents to cross the new bridge and the people were told at that time that would remain in place until enough money was collected to pay off the cost of the bridge. That isn't exactly how it worked out. It now costs $6.00 to cross the bridge and before covid came along, there were 250,000 cars per day crossing the Golden Gate. So at $1,250,000 per day day that adds up, especially since that goes on 365 days a year. And that works out well for the private owners of this public structure that the people paid for, and was labeled after its completion as The Seventh Wonder of the World ! As for the accidents that occurred during construction, particularly the one where 10 men fell to there death into the water, though very conceivable, I heard a different story while growing up. I heard that they actually fell into one of the big columns while they were pouring concrete into it with these huge buckets of concrete. So the men fell into the column while the concrete was poured into it and they would have died immediately when the concrete hit them. And there was no stopping the the pouring of the concrete because it took a long time to do that and those guys were fully dead and buried, so they kept on pouring. A similar story happened while the Bay Bridge was being built. In that one 11 men became encased in one of the big columns. And my final up-lifting comment is that though the true figures are unknown there have been probably around 70 reported suicides of people jumping off the Golden Gate Bridge. And I don't think there are more than 4 or 5 people who survived the ordeal. A couple of the survivors have made you tube videos, which I highly recommend. Well I am sure that there are many more stories to tell about the Bridge. I thought of these to share with the readers.

I really thought this was going to be more about the history of The Presidio based on the title.

The most amazing thing is how good they are at rebuilding it everytime it gets demolished in a movie!

I wasn’t interested in the towers but now that I’m reading all the comments. I too would like to know what’s in there? 🤔

I have visited the Golden Gate bridge many times and exploring the area. Fort Point / Presedio use be an active army attachment and I remembered a couple of times the MP's would come and see what I was doing. I would wait for the sun to rise so I could go surfing right under the Golden Gate bridge next to Fort Point. While surfing, I once was in total awe seeing a very large cruise ship pass under the Golden Gate bridge where it appeared from my viewpoint there was not enough clearance. The author of this video mention how turbulent the strait is and it is very turbulent with the tide moving out. I find it incredible of the engineering it took to over come those conditions to make such a strong bridge in some of the harshest conditions for over 85 years.

Amazing. It’s baffling that they were able to build such amazing structures so far back in time. Golden Gate Bridge and Hoover Dam being a just a couple examples of engineering that to Me is completely baffling what they were able to achieve. Marvelous. Simply Marvelous.

Now you have to do a video about the mackinaw bridge here in my home state of Michigan. Its just as beautiful and fascinating as the Golden gate is.

NCR and Proud!

My family has owned the same house in SF for the past 70 years.

I've crossed it, it's impressive..and I've also crossed the Macinac Bridge in Upper Michigan, so considering its length when compared to the Golden Gate, from anchorage to anchorage, the Mackinac Bridge is the third longest suspension bridge in world, and the longest in U.S.... so do a video on the MIghty Mac, across the Straits of Macinac please!

I was born in Bethlehem and grew up there. The Steel produced near-indestructible steel. There was a building somewhere in the Midwest a few years ago where it took 3 or 4 attempts to demolish it.

McRen had me rolling! 🤣😂🤣 I couldn’t help but picture NWA with one guy dressed in a leprechaun outfit! 😂😂😂😂

Excellent Video. I'm a Northern California native. I shared this video with all my out of state friends! You did an excellent job summing up so much of the history I grew up with. More Golden Gate and Bay Area videos PLEASE!

4:36 did he just used an fictional NCR flag with the mutated two-headed bear from the Fallout video game series as real California flag?

So cool to see my favorite bridge of my home state on your channel

The red star on the California flag is very appropriate, comrade.

There may be one or two failed Japanese torpedoes in the mud around the south tower that were fired during WW II

Awesome video

Really well done video!

Regarding 5:08, the naval warship USS Portsmouth was not personally commanded by Commodore John Drake Sloat. Instead the USS Portsmouth was personally commanded by Captain John Berrien Montgomery when it arrived off Yerba Buena town in June 1846 which later became the city of San Francisco. Portsmouth Square park in San Francisco’s Chinatown is named in honor of the USS Portsmouth and Montgomery Street is named in honor of Captain Montgomery. Meanwhile Commodore Sloat who was in command of the Pacific Squadron was 119 miles south of San Francisco Bay in Monterey Bay. Commodore Sloat with the frigate USS Savannah and the two sloops, USS Cyane and USS Levant captured Monterey from the Mexicans in Alta California on July 7, 1846. Sloat Avenue in Monterey is named in honor of Commodore Sloat. Also Sloat Boulevard in San Francisco is named in honor of Commodore Sloat as well as Commodore Sloat Elementary School.

"lived in relative peace for thousands of years." I see this concept used constantly in modern interpretations of history. It's hokum, and is a trope to to any serious students of history. "Thousands", did you research their history books, when exactly did the Spanish arrive? This is "The noble savage" concept, and is about as accurate as calling the native American's a traditional horse culture. (when did a significant amount of horses become available on the great plains?) A traditional Horse culture would be the Tartars or Mongols, or Arabs, or Spaniards (here, we are talking accurately about thousands of years of horse culture). Historically, the vast majority of populations don't live on original land. Every stressed, or ambitious, I'll use "tribe" has taken their neighbor's land, or was displaced to new land and typically displacing those all ready there. Think Mongols, Iroquois, Colonist, Hellenics, Romans, Celts Gaels, Meads, Parthians, Goths, Carthaginians get the point? "Might makes right", and no one has any solid idea what the Western O.P.'s were up to 2 or 3 thousand years ago. The trope, is a deification of the unknow by historians who prefer to mold history. Instead of understanding the absolute brutality of our ancestors. Look up Ashurbanipal. Good vid, just had to rant on the trope. Catharsis over, I'm ready for it lol! Two Hearted Ale poured, carry on!

The Golden Gate Bridge is definitely my favorite bridge in the world. I became enamored with the beautiful structure as a kid during the 1980's; this was due, mostly, to two factors: 1. My dad, being USAF, got stationed to Travis AFB in Northern California, located about an hour's drive from San Francisco. Living this close to the Bay Area enabled me several crossings over the iconic bridge. 2. The other prime reason to influence my appreciation for the Golden Gate Bridge was discovering that I shared the birthday of August 1st with the bridge designer, Joseph Strauss.

I make sure to drive this bridge every time I’m in the city :) love it! I’ll never get tired of it

Well done, Ryan. Yes, an insider's tour of the Golden Gate Bridge would be great.

I would watch that video on the inside of the support towers. Modern Marvels did a piece on the Mackinaw Bridge and its inner workings, and it was fascinating.

Thank you for your work, and yes, I'm curious to what is in the Golden Gate Bridge's towers. :-D

Great video Ryan. Very comprehensive indeed. I’d love to see a companion video that you spoke of that would cover the inside of the bridge.

Bring on the towers... Thank you for another amazing video...

Subscribed and wanna see the follow up!

John D Sload busted my great great great grandmother’s cheeks! Thank you!

Good show as always loved it!!! 👍👉👌🖖☮️♥️❗

Interesting history of an impressive engineering achievement. Thanks for posting. Looking forward to a follow-up report on tower contents!

Wonderful stuff. Please do the follow-up on the towers.

This was terrific, thank you, and yes please do an episode about what is inside the towers. It sounds like a wonderful idea!

Thanks

That's a wonderful idea. I have been there more than once, and it always is such a beautiful site.

@IT'S HISTORY id love for you to do a followup video of whats inside the Golden Gate Bridge. I already know whats inside the London Tower Bridge and that one is rather fasinating how it has evolved from it's long original working components several times to conform to modern more effiecient tech to make it work better and faster.

My brother did his apprenticeship on the GG Bridge as an IronWorker. Said he had to have balls of iron to work on that bridge especially when you’re on the top of either tower. He transferred to Las Vegas but misses working the bridge 🌉

This was an amazing feat.

I have friends who walked up inside the Bay Bridge west tower. At the time, a pier went from the west tower to the SF seawall, but this was torn town and the tower was locked up since then. They had an amazing tall to tell. I would like to see what's in those towers, and hear the sounds which must be there from the wind blowing through the cables.

Yes please do a video about what is inside the towers!

Best part is going on the North side of the Bridge and going up and exploring all the old cannon Bunkers along the cliff side. Just missing the big Anti-aircraft Guns pointed towards the Pacific waiting for Japan in WW2

There are many bridges, but only ONE Golden Gate. All hail the world's most beautiful bridge!

My father was stationed under the Golden gate bridge during world war II he was an MP and worked with the sheriff San Francisco

It’s a wonderful idea, l would like to know what’s inside the Golden Gate Towers! I love your Channel and l subscribed a while ago! ♥️👍🏼👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

A follow up video would be awesome

Supa dope time lapse at the end. Shout out to all the bboys and bgirl from Cincinnati. the Queen City YEAHHH. Cincy Architects marking bridges from Cali to Brooklyn and in your town next!

Fallout's 'New California' flag was snuck in as a gag?

Awesome video being born there not many know the true history of the golden gate bridge and san francisco as a whole

Thank you. Like the Forth Bridge, the GG Bridge is a monument to engineering enhancing a structure’s natural environment. And, yes, I’d love to see a more detailed video on its interior.

Now you have peaked my curiosity. What is inside?

The heart of this engineer wants to learn more about the towers of the Golden Gate Bridge.

it's so impressive to visit that fort with it's huge thick walls and multiple levels and cannon placements, then look up and see the bridge towering over everything as if the fort was a toy playhouse.

Crossed it and went under it on a ferry when I visited San Francisco a few years ago and it’s one of those things you don’t forget

I would love to know what's in the towers! I also would love to know more about the various more modern forts in the area of San Fransisco.

Good intel.

That would be fun to hear what's inside of the tower's

man taught more history in 21 minutes than my history teacher did in 1 quarter

I question your information. You state that until 1964 it was the longest bridge in the world. The Mackinac bridge opened in 1957, and is still the longest suspension bridge in the western hemisphere

Cheers

To know what is inside would be great

I love how they included the new California republic from fallout in here lol

I have to correct you there, Strauss Did Not Officially Designed the Golden Gate Bridge, It was Architecture Design by Charles Ellis: " Charles Alton Ellis (1876 - 1949) was a professor, structural engineer and mathematician who was chiefly responsible for the structural design of the Golden Gate Bridge. Because of a dispute with Joseph Strauss, he was not recognized for his work when the bridge opened in 1937". Strauss took the Glory, and still the Golden Gate Bridge District to this Day 2022 Will not give Charles Ellis is Name on the Historical Dedication Marker. As I have the American Experience DVD on the Golden Gate Bridge in which saying that Ellis was the Original Designer, and they sell it at the Visitor's Center at the Golden Gate Bridge site. Also I was Born at the Presidio back in 1956. Strauss had a Stroke, and Died 8 months after the bridge open. I heard that the Steel from Beth Steel were shipped coast to coast by TRAINS that was on the documentary too... Not the Canal then the bridge would of been finished in 1939 or 1940. Did you also knew that Strauss Bribe the Board of Supervisors in the mid 1920's to have HIS Design in which it was a piece of Shit Design, in which one of his bridges is still standing in San Francisco on 3rd Street right next to Oracle Baseball Park of the SF Giants. Can you Imagined the Monstrously Gigantic design like the 3rd bridge over the Golden Gate?? And also after the bridge was open in 1937 since then to today over 1800 persons committed suicide. But You have enlighten me in your presentation of history, I will be watching it, I love it.... Thank You

The "newly opened Panama Canal" had already been used for 20+ years.

Personally Ryan, I'd prefer to learn more about the Costal defense fortifications, which I thought would be talked about in more depth.

Please do a video on what is inside the towers. Can you also do one on Alcatraz.

The Presidio was the Military Fort. Sutter didn't go bankrupt, he became a millionaire as a result of Sutter being the only one to sell the supplies to the miners.

Stopped at "bce" 0:57

That's a great idea! What's inside those towers.

There is a number of bunker sites around both it's anchor points and adjoining parks. The reasons for couple of the parks was to obsure and distract from the openings that have been mostly sealed.

So what happened to the follow up vid about what's in the bridges towers??

pleases a video of coronado bridges or san diego history

Do the follow up please

My guitar and I were among the throng that crossed the Bridge upon it's 50th anniversary, the world's biggest block party, with 350,000 of my closest friends. I was at a gig the following weekend when a patron asked, for as I on the Golden Gate Bridge that day. Hundreds of thousands and I meet four of them. What're the odds‽

Fort Point is a brick constructed fort; construction began in 1853 and completed by 1861.

My great great great grandpa took John sutter’s cheeks 😂

More on the towers please.

Wait, what? Did you used the flag of the fictious "New California Republic" from Fallout instead of the actual California state flag?

Something like 90% of the steel for The Golden Gate Bridge was made in Bethlehem PA. It was shipped to the Philadelphia waterfront then loaded on to large vessels and sent right to the site. I'd love to see some pictures of that.

The Strait of the Golden Gate was named by John C. Fremont during the Mexican American War well before the discovery of gold at Sutter's Mill. He named it after the Golden Horn in Constantinople and because of the golden California Poppies growing in the hills along the waterway. Would have been nice if you'd gotten this straight--common error.

the building of the gg should actually become a movie tho

A video about the towers would be great.

Whats inside the towers? Heck yeah!

Fallout NCR flag 4:38

I saw the queen Mary 2 sail under it years ago. They had to wait u til low ride and it missed it by only a few feet. I’ve walked across it numerous time

ya, a video about what is in the towers would be interesting

In a way ,he's right , "The more things change the more they stay the same"-Solid " snake plisken lol

How about explaining the GGB's connection with the Tacoma Narrows Bridge (Galloping Gertie)

Lol the NCR flag making a cameo

anyone else notice how he used the new california republic flag from fallout new vegas

It’s a good idea!!! Bytheway, do they paint it?

2:48 where did you get that definition for “manifest destiny” I’ve always heard it described as the belief that by changing your own state of mind, thinking hard about what you want or want to achieve, you manifest it in reality. As if your thoughts influenced reality and not the other way around.

Please lower the volume of the intro by half, scares me every time...

I would also love to hear the story. 😎

Ummm... when was the military history part gonna start? Great documentary of S.F. and the bridge tho!