Saturday is the 75th anniversary of one of the greatest days in Bay Area history - the day the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opened for business.
When it opened, it was the longest bridge in the world and remains one of the busiest. For 75 years, the Bay Bridge has been the main street of the Bay Area. "Today and forever," San Francisco Mayor Angelo J. Rossi said in the keynote speech on Nov. 12, 1936, "we are welded with a span of steel."
The construction of the Bay Bridge, which began in the summer of 1933, was considered one of the engineering wonders of the world.
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