And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
Tuesday, April 5, 2022
Construction of the Golden Gate Bridge, San Francisco, California 1933-1937. Ted Huggin's Photographs of the Golden Gate Bridge. Finished early and 10% under budget.
Yeah but, how many of the workers were wimminz, poc, disadvantaged, most vulnerable, slackers, whiners, gravy boaters, and outright shitstains?
Sorry assed white doods hoggin all the action, gettin all the moneys, gettin all the fame, and most importantly, GETTIN SHIT DONE!
During that era, 20's, 30's and 40's giant scale projects (Empire State Building fer instance) were regularly completed under time and under budget and almost 100 years later are still standing. And in the case of the ESB, still standing after a direct hit by a US military bomber (B24?).
That era may happen again but only after all the dead weight parasites are burned off.
I could be wrong. Been wrong before. But the hill in the distance of photo #1 with the divot out of it might be the sight of the quarry that Dirty Harry chases Scorpio around in before he issues the coup de grâce on the killer at the end of the movie. Change my mind.
Larkspur is where the quarry (& train tunnel) was, over by by San Rafael. The hill in the picture is the the one before you'd see San Quentin & the Richmond-San Rafael bridge. I'll watch Dirty Harry now and again just to see the VWs & how that part of the world used to be...
The guys who worked on that would have been so stoked about working so far above the water. I worked on transmission lines when In was young and the thrill that you could fall was intoxicating, you didn't believe you would die and were stoked that you were doing something dangerous was great. It's what guys do to prove themselves plus they pay you for it.
Early and under budget? Were unions not involved?
ReplyDeleteToday it would never get through permitting.
ReplyDeleteCould this be the last time a big budget project was ever completed early and under budget?
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DeleteYeah but, how many of the workers were wimminz, poc, disadvantaged, most vulnerable, slackers, whiners, gravy boaters, and outright shitstains?
ReplyDeleteSorry assed white doods hoggin all the action, gettin all the moneys, gettin all the fame, and most importantly, GETTIN SHIT DONE!
During that era, 20's, 30's and 40's giant scale projects (Empire State Building fer instance) were regularly completed under time and under budget and almost 100 years later are still standing. And in the case of the ESB, still standing after a direct hit by a US military bomber (B24?).
That era may happen again but only after all the dead weight parasites are burned off.
B-25
DeleteSteel for the Empire State Building was delivered still warm from the foundries in Pittsburgh.
DeleteAnd it survived many earthquakes, too.
ReplyDeleteLink to pics of GG Brg construction: https://digitallibrary.californiahistoricalsociety.org/object/2552
ReplyDeleteI could be wrong. Been wrong before. But the hill in the distance of photo #1 with the divot out of it might be the sight of the quarry that Dirty Harry chases Scorpio around in before he issues the coup de grâce on the killer at the end of the movie.
ReplyDeleteChange my mind.
Larkspur is where the quarry (& train tunnel) was, over by by San Rafael. The hill in the picture is the the one before you'd see San Quentin & the Richmond-San Rafael bridge.
DeleteI'll watch Dirty Harry now and again just to see the VWs & how that part of the world used to be...
The guys who worked on that would have been so stoked about working so far above the water. I worked on transmission lines when In was young and the thrill that you could fall was intoxicating, you didn't believe you would die and were stoked that you were doing something dangerous was great.
ReplyDeleteIt's what guys do to prove themselves plus they pay you for it.
Real men.....
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