1987 Golden Gate Anniversary crowd - photo

[Altair]

1987 Golden Gate Anniversary crowd.

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Previously:

Golden Gate bridge cable cutaway - photo
1937 Golden Gate Bridge opening with cutting torch - photo
Firework-laden balloon explodes over crowd - GIF
Skid steer modified into riot control vehicle
Celebratory gunfire nearly hits crowd - GIF

[Beserkleyboy]

...I was there...now, I wonder of I can find us...seriously, and 2 weeks later I emigrated to Australia...cheers
Jim

[Duke_of_URL]

And amazingly, not a single person jumped from the bridge that day...

[Toolmaker51]

...I was there...now, I wonder of I can find us...seriously, and 2 weeks later I emigrated to Australia...cheers
Jim

Found you, to the left of Waldo.......

[Frank S]

And amazingly, not a single person jumped from the bridge that day...

In that crowd they would have more likely been tossed of the bridge instead of having to jump.
The weight of the 300,000 people flattened the normally arched roadbed, although bridge engineers later said there was never any real danger.

"""The Golden Gate Bridge, all 419,000 tons of it, groaned and swayed like an old wooden plank thrown across a ditch," Montgomery wrote. "Frightened and seasick people vomited on their shoes."

According to Montgomery, people began throwing bicycles and strollers off the bridge in order to lighten the load on the bridge.

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"There were cheers as some people started to hurl bicycles over the railing," he wrote. "A stroller tumbled down and sank beneath the waves 220 feet below. 'Throw the baby, too,' people yelled, laughing. These were probably the bridge walkers trapped on the sidewalk of a roadbed 95 feet wide, with only a 4-foot railing between them and eternity."""

[TrickieDickie]

I had a girlfriend in Sac and we made a round trip to San Francisco and of course drove across the bridge. It was a great experience going down to Fisherman's Wharf and eating this huge fish sandwich then going to see the sub and WWII merchant ship. She wanted me to move to Sac but I would have had to move out by now. The gun control laws, high taxes, cost of living, socialist policies and now the homeless is more than I can tolerate.