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- Title
'Have you ever been on the bridge? It has a heartbeat': oral histories of San Francisco's Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge, 1933-1989.
- Authors
Redman, Samuel J.
- Abstract
This article explores the San Francisco - Oakland Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge as elements of the cultural memory of Northern California. Focusing on newly-recorded oral history interviews at the University of California, Berkeley, this article argues that the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate Bridge evolved as cultural symbols in the decades following their opening. Both bridges emerged as symbols for the region, but each with distinctive and different meanings, including humanity's triumph over nature, memorialisation of returning troops from war, disaster and site of tragedy.
- Subjects
GOLDEN Gate Bridge (San Francisco, Calif.); SAN Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge (Oakland &; San Francisco, Calif.); COLLECTIVE memory &; urban planning; BRIDGE design &; construction; MEMORIALIZATION &; politics; TWENTIETH century; HISTORY
- Publication
Oral History (01430955), 2018, Vol 46, Issue 1, p91
- ISSN
0143-0955
- Publication type
Article