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Building The Golden Gate Bridge

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Great footage from 1930s of the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in every phase of construction.

Stock shots of completed bridge; informative narration; explanative illustrations illuminate bridges dimensions and other structural aspects of design.

05:01:00:13 VS statue of Joseph Strauss, Chief Engineer of the Golden Gate Bridge in front of Golden Gate Bridge.

05:02:22:26 Graphic illustration in red and white of San Francisco Bay area animated to highlight San Francisco, Marin and the Golden Gate passage. Narration explains necessity for the construction of the Golden Gate Bridge.

05:02:59:10 Illustration animated to highlight dimensions of the Golden Gate Bridge. Center span tower to tower 4200 feet. Side-spans each 1125 feet. Roadway 250 above water.

05:06:42:18 Pan up rendering of single Golden Gate Bridge Tower; arrows indicated dimension of tower.

05:07:57:23 VS craning in large steel sections of the Golden Gate bridge off boat in San Francisco Bay.

05:26:10:08 Pan down from north tower of Golden Gate Bridge to view down empty newly completed bridge; fade in spinning newspaper to CU San Francisco Chronicle headlines “100,000 Cross Span”, “Gateway to An Empire”, Pedestrians Jam Structure from Morning to Night.”

05:26:24:29 VS Golden Gate Bridge inauguration and ceremonial first crossing.

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The Food Police: San Francisco Officials Ban Happy Meals With Veto Proof Majority Vote

What’s next.. the toy in the cereal box? How about cracker Jax?

It seems the San Francisco Board of Supervisors has accomplished what the Hamburglar never could. They’ve made off with McDonald’s fare.

The supes today passed an ordinance that will require meals to meet nutritional guidelines if restaurants wish to include a toy with the food purchase.

More importantly, the supes passed the so-called “Happy Meal Ban” by an 8-3 vote — meaning it can survive a promised veto from Mayor Gavin Newsom. That’s right: San Francisco done banned the Happy Meal. Robble robble.

All along, the critical vote on Supervisor Eric Mar’s ordinance belonged to Supervisor Bevan Dufty — you could label him the city’s Burger Kingmaker. For weeks, Dufty refused to disclose which way he was leaning. Now we know.

It’s an interesting choice for a mayoral candidate running as a pro-business moderate. But it’s not a decision that was arrived at lightly. Dufty’s office began to resemble a McDonald’s, actually: Billions and billions of stakeholders served.

Then again, local young people have rated the toys found in happy meals as “sucky.” So it’s not such a grand haul.

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