The Golden Gate Bridge, completed after more than four years of construction at a cost of $35 million, is a visitor attraction recognized around the world. The GGB opened to vehicular traffic on May 28, 1937 at twelve o'clock noon, ahead of schedule and under budget, when President Franklin D. Roosevelt pressed a telegraph key in the White House announcing the event.

The Marin Headlands side of San Francisco's GGB is a great place to take pictures and watch freighters and sailboats cruise under the bridge. You will enjoy a view that stretches from Golden Gate Park and Twin Peaks to The Bay Bridge and beyond.

The design of the Golden Gate Bridge echoes an Art Deco Theme. Wide, vertical ribbing on the horizontal tower bracing accents the sun's light on the bridge.

The towers that support the Golden Gate Bridge's suspension cables are smaller at the top than at the base, emphasizing the tower height of 500 feet above the roadway.

Coit Tower is another San Francisco landmark with an Art Deco design. Timothy Pflueger was probably the most prolific and renowned Art Deco Architect in the San Francisco Bay Area.

The Golden Gate Bridge's 4,200 foot long main suspension span was a world record that stood for 27 years. The bridge's two towers rise 746 feet making them 191 feet taller than the Washington Monument. The five lane bridge crosses Golden Gate Strait which is about 400 feet, or 130 meters, deep.

Joseph Baerman Strauss had a dream of building a bridge across the Golden Gate. Though Strauss only lived a year beyond completion of construction he disproved the conventional wisdom of the time which stated that "no one can bridge the Golden Gate because of insurmountable difficulties which are apparent to all who give thought to the idea."