Between the Bridges - San Francisco, California
by Darin Volpe
Title
Between the Bridges - San Francisco, California
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Darin Volpe
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
Coit Tower on Telegraph Hill stands between the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge in the foreground and the Golden Gate Bridge.
Coit Tower was built on Telegraph Hill in 1933. The 210-foot tower was funded by Lillie Hitchcock Coit, an eccentric woman who lived in San Francisco in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. She was known to smoke cigars and wear trousers long before it was socially acceptable for women, and was an avid gambler who often dressed in make clothing to gamble in men-only establishments. At fifteen years old she began a long association with the San Francisco Fire Department when, seeing that a fire engine was struggling up Telegraph Hill due to a shortage of staff, dropped her school books, took up a position on the ropes to help pull, and called out to bystanders to help pull as well. From then forward she became the unofficial mascot of the San Francisco Fire Department.
San Francisco was founded in 1776 by the Spanish. Rapid growth during the California Gold Rush of 1849 made San Francisco the largest city on the West Coast. The 1906 earthquake and fire destroyed three-quarters of the city, but it was quickly rebuilt and celebrated its rebirth at the 1915 Panama-Pacific International Expo. Today it is the second most densely populated city in the United States second only to New York, and the thirteenth most populous city in the United States.
The San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge crosses San Francisco Bay connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California. It was built between 1933 and 1936. The bridge consists of two main sections, the western suspension bridge that connects San Francisco with Yerba Buena Island, and the eastern section that connects the island with the city of Oakland. The eastern span was originally a cantilever bridge, but due to damage in the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake it was replaced with a self-anchored suspension bridge in 2013.
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November 17th, 2016
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Allan Van Gasbeck
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