City by the Bay - San Francisco, California
by Darin Volpe
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City by the Bay - San Francisco, California
Artist
Darin Volpe
Medium
Photograph - Photography
Description
The Bay Bridge and the seemingly ever-present fog sandwich the City by the Bay.
San Francisco, also called the "City by the Bay," 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 16th, 2016
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