Celebrating San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge at 75
Halfway along the Pacific coast of California is a single strait, leading into the sheltered bay around San Francisco. Three miles long and a mile wide, the passageway, with its jagged coastline, treacherous tides and fog, eluded early explorers until it was first spotted in 1769 by the Spanish explorer Gaspar de Portola. Today the strait is home to one of the most iconic and photographed structures in the world — the Golden Gate Bridge — constructed 75 years ago….