“One day I heard they were going to start the Golden Gate Bridge, and I says well, I'll try it. I never been up 746 feet but I'll try it anyhow.”
That's what IBEW member Fred Brusati told interviewer and historian Harvey Schwartz as part of an oral history project that is now a book by Schwartz titled, “Building the Golden Gate Bridge: A Workers' Oral History.”
Much has been written about the Golden Gate Bridge, but much less has been said of the men – women were nonexistent on the project – who toiled hundreds of feet in the air over the Pacific ocean, dealing with massive fluctuations in weather conditions, as well as the dangers that came with construction in the 1930s – long before safety laws or OSHA. Now however, some of that record has been amended.
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