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Golden Gate Bridge

• By The College for Kids

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Where is the bridge?

• The Golden Gate Bridge is in San Francisco,
  California in the United States of America. It
  is on the continent of North America.

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Look at the cars!
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Look at the water
Look at pipe!
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• The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge
  spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into the
  San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. It
  connects the city of San Francisco on the
  northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula to
  Marin County as part of US Highway 101 and
  California State Highway 1.
• The Golden Gate Bridge was the largest suspension
  bridge in the world when it was completed in 1937
  and has become an internationally recognized
  symbol of San Francisco and the United States. It
  is currently the second longest suspension bridge
  in the United States after the Verrazano-Narrows
  Bridge in New York City.

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Did you know

• 11 men died when construction.
• 19 men were saved by a safety net.

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What colour is the golden gate bridge?

• The Golden Gate Bridge's paint color is orange
  vermillion, also called international orange.
  Architect Irving Morrow selected the color
  because it blends with the bridge's setting
• The bridge was fully painted when it was first
  built and then touched up for the next 27 years.
  In 1965, the original paint was removed because
  of corrosion and replaced with a inorganic zinc
  silicate primer and an acrylic emulsion top coat,
  a project that took 30 years. Today, painters
  touch up the paint continuously.
• 38 painters work on the bridge, along with 17
  ironworkers who replace corroding steel and
  rivets

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Beep Beep !

• Average crossings About 40 million per year,
  counting both north- and southbound crossings,
  compared to 33 million crossing the first year it
  was open.

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Look at the tunnel
Look at the boat compared to The bridge.
Look at all the supports
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Look at the bridge
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