The people of San Francisco enjoyed the Golden Gate Bridge right since its opening, dated May 27, 1937. This day finalized a long construction campaign that lasted almost 13 years, drained city and donor’s budgets, and cost around $33.7 million. The incredible design and scale of the bridge turned it into the new visual symbol…
San Francisco before the earthquake in 1906
San Fransisco was born as a city in the times of Gold Rush (1849) and boomed, growing from 800 people in 1848 to 35,000 in 1852 and 57,000 in 1860. That made San Fransisco the fifteenth largest city in the nation. There were fashionable department stores, luksury hotels, modern cable cars, a new city hall, believed to be…
