{"id":334650,"date":"2026-05-27T17:30:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:30:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334650\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T17:30:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T17:30:08","slug":"may-27-1937-san-franciscos-golden-gate-bridge-opens-up-to-the-public","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/334650\/","title":{"rendered":"May 27, 1937 &#8211; San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Bridge opens up to the public"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; On this day, May 27, 1937, San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Bridge opened to the public after five years of construction. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On that day, more than 200,000 people paid 25 cents each to walk along the bridge. Cars were allowed to drive across the bridge the next day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The bridge connects San Francisco and Marin County. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The concept of bridging the nearly mile-wide Golden Gate strait was proposed as early as 1872, but it wasn\u2019t until the early 1920s that people in San Francisco started to approve the project. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">In 1921, a Cincinnati-born engineer submitted a proposal that could be built for $27 million. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">The design was considered unsightly compared to the bridge\u2019s final result, but it was affordable. The engineer became the recognized leader of the effort to bridge the Golden Gate strait. <\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Eleven men died during construction of the bridge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text text-start\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nbc15.com\/page\/find-nbc15-news-wherever-you-are\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Click here<\/a> to download the WMTV15 News app or our WMTV15 First Alert weather app.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 WMTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) &#8211; On this day, May 27, 1937, San Francisco\u2019s Golden Gate Bridge opened to the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":334651,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[30],"tags":[117905,11917,138363,100,101,103,71880,102,104,106,105,66144],"class_list":["post-334650","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-francisco","tag-america-250","tag-golden-gate-bridge","tag-golden-gate-bridge-history","tag-news","tag-san-francisco","tag-san-francisco-headlines","tag-san-francisco-history","tag-san-francisco-news","tag-sf","tag-sf-headlines","tag-sf-news","tag-us-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334650","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334650"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334650\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/334651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334650"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334650"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334650"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}