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San Francisco’s Golden Gate Bridge, a stunning technological and artistic achievement, to the public after five years of construction. On opening day – “Pedestrian Day”–some 200,000 bridge walkers at the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge, which spans the Golden Gate Strait at the entrance to San Francisco Bay and San Francisco and Marin County. The next day, on May 28, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to traffic. On May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was opened to great acclaim, a of progress in the Bay Area during a time of economic crisis. At 4,200 feet, it was the longest bridge in the world the completion of New York City’s Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964. Today, the Golden Gate Bridge remains one of the world’s most recognizable architectural structures.