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Golden Gate Bridge opens

San Francisco's new suspension bridge opened to pedestrians and traffic in May 1937. Newspaper pages from 1937 on a map and timeline.

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23,766,177 pages from 4,691 newspapers, 1736–1963.

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300 matching newspaper pages in total. Washington, DC has the most hits (65 pages). Showing up to 10 earliest results from this city.

  1. Evening Star — 1937-01-23, page 11

    The Library of Congress text does not contain the match. It was found in American Stories (Dell et al. 2023), a second machine reading of the scans. OCR credits.

    These excerpts come from American Stories OCR.

    … Two hundred houses are being moved or realigned to accommodate approaches to the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco. Spy Case Continued From First Page.) Taylor and the following …

  2. Evening Star — 1937-02-17, page 1

    … Associated Press. SAN FRANCISCO, February 17.— The construction catwalk of the vast Golden Gate Bridge collapsed today and several men were believed to have plunged into the ocean. The …

  3. Evening Star — 1937-02-18, page 2

    … considered end rejected by the President before his mange. * Where Ten Lost Lives on Golden Gate Bridge 2SO fQOT &ROP Ten workmen on the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco lost their lives yesterday when tons of metal and wood used as …

    … 11 — The question whether scaffolding on the world longest suspension span, the Golden Gate Bridge, had been declared unsafe stood high tods among those for which investigator sought …

  4. The Washington Times — 1937-02-18, page 6

    … CRASH DESCRIBED BY WITNESSES SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 18 11.N.5). —Tre crashing of the Golden Gate bridge scaffold, which the swirling waters of the bay was carried 10 men to their death …

  5. The Washington Daily News — 1937-02-18, page 3

    … arrived in New York yesterday aboard the lie de France. 9 More Bodies Hunted at Golden Gate Bridge Inspectors Had Warned Scaffold Was Unsafe, They Say; 10 Die By United Press SAN …

    … hurled 220 feet to their deaths yesterday when a traveling scaffold on the new Golden Gate Bridge fell. One body was recovered. Three others working on the struc ture had miraculous …

  6. The Washington Daily News — 1937-02-19, page 24

    … airliner in the bay and yesterday's accident when 10 men plunged to death from the Golden Gate Bridge. He said that the Atlantic Coast had six Coast Guard air stations, while the Pacific …

  7. Evening Star — 1937-02-20, page 3

    … Shaffer. PROBE BRIDGE FATALITY SAN FRANCISCO. February 20 (VP). —Collapse of a Golden Gate Bridge construction scaffold, killing 10 work men, was investigated today by the State …

  8. The Washington Daily News — 1937-02-20, page 5

    … today for Bur bank, Calif. Disaster Film Shown SAN FRANCISCO—Motion pictures of the Golden Gate Bridge disaster, showing 12 men hurtling 250 feet into San Francisco Bay, were shown in …

  9. Evening Star — 1937-02-21, page 2

    … Industrial Accident Commission's Inquiry Into the death plunge of 10 men from the Golden Gate Bridge last Wednesday. McGovern, appearing as attorney fen* the Pacific Bridge Co., protested …

  10. Evening Star — 1937-03-07, page 1

    … can cut her with knife," yelled a fisherman from a nearby trawler. Workmen on the Golden Gate Bridge about a mile away could not (See RESCUErPage A-3.) -• MAN OF 330 POUNDS RESCUED …

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