Surfing San Francisco's Fort Point is like riding the ultimate novelty wave. This is the story of a surfer, sucked out to sea ...

The Golden Gate Bridge's vaulting, orange arches amidst the rocky seascape of the San Francisco Bay have made it one of the West Coast's most enduring symbols and the city's most popular tourist ...

Despite their city's obvious need to expand, a number of San Franciscans opposed Joseph Strauss' quest to build the Golden Gate Bridge. Their reasons ranged from the practical to the emotional.

It took much more than a clever engineer and a relentless promoter to build the Golden Gate Bridge. The bridge effort enlisted men by the hundreds to do the filthy, back-breaking, and routinely ...

Soon after, The Golden Gate Bridge, Highway, & Transportation District, the agency responsible for the iconic suspension bridge’s maintenance, solved the mystery: The sound was due to high winds ...

INSTRUMENTS have recently been installed on the Golden Gate Bridge at San Francisco for accurate recording of movements that occur under wind loads (Earthquake Notes, 14, Nos. 1 and 2 ; 1942).