Golden Gate Bridge

San Francisco's Golden Gate Bridge is a stunning technological and artistic achievement, [blank] to the public after five years of construction. On opening day-"Pedestrian Day"-some 200,000 bridge walkers marveled at the 4,200-foot-long suspension bridge, [blank] spans the Golden Gate Strait at the entrance to San Francisco Bay and connects San Francisco and Marin County. The next day, on May 28, the Golden Gate Bridge opened to vehicular traffic. The concept of bridging the nearly mile-wide Golden Gate Strait was [blank] as early as 1872, but it was not [blank] the early 1920s that public opinion in San Francisco began to favor such an undertaking. Eleven men died [blank] construction. On May 27, 1937, the Golden Gate Bridge was opened to great acclaim, a symbol of progress in the Bay Area during a time of economic crisis. At 4,200 feet, it was the longest bridge in the world until the completion of New York City's Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in 1964. Today, the Golden Gate Bridge remains one of the world's most recognizable architectural structures.