30 Workers Fell While Building the Golden Gate Bridge
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- Опубліковано 21 гру 2017
- During the construction of the Golden Gate bridge in San Francisco, the construction companies had a grim rule of thumb: one worker fatality for every million dollars spent.
From the Series: America in Color: The 1930s bit.ly/2hwYyUR - Розваги
Golden Gate Bridge: *exists*
Every movie: *Nice bridge you got there, would be a shame if something happened to it.*
Nicolai Gjelsvik that’s every apocalypse/end of the world movie
Every disaster movie ever taken place near the golden bridge
Godzilla 2014
Golden gate bridge:Why you bully me
I swear bro 😂
$35 million, 30 falls, 19 saves, 11 deaths, biggest suspension bridge at the time, good pay? I say it was the safest project of its time
Kevin Prasad
Source?
Fred Hampton's Ghost the video your watching you moron
Fucking twats
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Have you ever seen that photo (from around 1920 or 1930, I think) of construction workers in New York? They're eating lunch, sitting on a girder, hundreds of feet in the air. I get dizzy just looking at that picture.
The fact that you have battleships going under the bridge is just awesome!
Such a awesome shoot
badass
mike super gose I'm thinking that that was the Arizona.
Acc0rd79 sounds like fun
The superstructure means it's probably a Pennsylvania class.
Ten of eleven workers who died in falls were killed on February 17, 1937 in the same event. A scaffold holding 12 men fell into the safety net, but the equipment was too heavy and the net gave way. Two out of twelve workers who fell that day survived, but ten died.
Very interesting and very sad.
imagine surviving that
Crazy
Horrific way to die. A quick death but it must have been terrifying.
Did not know that
The men that fell into the safety net that lived belonged to the "halfway to hell" club as it was known.
and can you imagine the amount of BS they had to endure from their coworkers from there on out?
Ya i survived a fall 70 ft to flat ground.. even got up after. Broke my arm off.. but does that mean im in?
Yes. Al Zampa was part of that club. His grandson works today with us at our company. He is a great guy. Respect Union Labor!!
Dana H interesting to know to say the least
Jacob Harrington -CoCorKiller Jesus. Like clean off? What the heck were you doing?
"We need more women working these types of jobs" said no feminist ever.
Have you ever noticed on road construction crews the single woman worker is the one holding the stop sign?
Mad Dog McCree you can thank biology for it, and women realizing hard work isn’t for them. They get tired and realize labor work is for men. Men are much stronger and bigger.
lol right. The women who are in the Union mostly on the ground fucking with rebar or something.
KiloByte really, I've never seen a female construction worker to be honest. Now that you mention it.
cool story bro.
Even back then, 35 million for that huge ass bridge seems a bargain.
pinkfreud62 inflation. Im sure its more like 100 million
pinkfreud62 I'm no back then 35 million was a gigantic fortune to be spending
in todays money thats worth $673,975,965.73
About $700m today.
I have $1
Back when the US was building state of the art infrastructure. Those days are long gone.
Now your building a wall...
Mr M I wish but sadly now we’re building those people subsidized houses on tax payers dollars so they be burned by an angry mob of rioters
Probably due to the fact that Freemasons only care about politics now.
@Zero Alpha that was one segment that wasn't completed yet
The only way America gets back to this sort of infrastructure is with a far left president like FDR
Imagine being in the safety net, must’ve been scary.
Not as bad as being under it, I imagine
@@BuzzKirill3D You can say that again.
@Simp If you were lucky you'd die upon impact from that height. If not, you break multiple bones and drown very painfully.
@@karatlack4464 It's actually possible to land in a proper position and be uninjured, even from that height, but it would be hard to control your body in that 3 second descent
@@benjaminpadilla1464 it really isn't though. No matter what you do, from 700+ ft you are most definitely getting hurt falling into water from that height. You may survive if you can swim long enough for help to arrive, but you are breaking many bones and are gonna be in an unimaginable amount of pain.
*I hope that they Memorialized those men's names on something connected to that thing? Those brave men who died working on that bridge deserve to be remembered throughout history. Put up some sort of metal plaque permanentally attacked to that bridge.*
I don't mean this in a belittling way, but the word is not plack, it's plaque :) & I fully agree !
& attach lol, I'm being annoying right now I know 🤣
@@zach2990
THANKS!!! I appreciate it!
ATTACK!!
you spelled permanently wrong
Construction Worker, a job with such high risk of injuries/death and so physically straining yet to essential to the world. It deserves way more respect and appreciation, not only for the effort, but also the victims
and in the end, they wanted to feed their families so they would not be poor, and there are people today who are full with money
I was looking forward to a full documentary.
Liger King This is just a clip of a whole documentary they posted last week. it's called America the 30s In Color.
That makes sense to me now. Thank you Sam Harris.
Yeah same here.
The 1 min and 39 second timer on it before you clicked didn’t deter you?
All the poor souls lost building this bridge and all the souls lost jumping from it.
Rest in peace.
When you realize the Golden Gate Bridge was built in less time than the pharmacy behind my house
I lived close to an old fellow, deaf he was, the man told me about working on the bridge, and showed me some of his pictures. I did enjoy talking to him - well mostly listening.Older people have a lot of knowledge, so listen.
My dumbass would probably find a way to accidentally fall off the thing when standing in the middle of the completely road
Lol🤣😂
Same 😔
Your grammar though "Completely road"
bruh just shut up about grammar, the comment was from two years ago anyways...
@@johnnydamquantavious2639 But he's right doe...
Wow they managed to build that in 3 years!?!? Current construction of minor shit like road construction, pipe replacement, new overpass or roads take fucking forever now. It took 2 years for just a small apt to be built in the city yet these ppl back then with less technology was able to build a huge fucking bridge in 3!?!?
It took 8 years just to fix a Pothole in my country
Small apartments are of Low priority.but the golden gate bridge was of really high priority, the government doesn't give a fuck about a small apartment,but they would if it was a bridge.
because there is more safety regulations so it takes longer these days to prevent deaths
David Kavalcenti people just don't know common sense
Well yea 1930s back when literally every man in the city had the same job 😂
I just think it’s amazing that such a feat was accomplished in the 1930’s. Crazy how advanced we already were nearly 100 years ago
Imagine the ancient engineers and workers who built those structures that still standing today even thousands of years has passed. 😊
The Brooklyn Bridge is decades older, same basic design, and still going strong. It was grossly overengineered just to be sure it would work.
Not quite the same design, but the even older Chain Bridge (1849) over the Danube in Budapest was a worthy precursor.
Safety net ftw! "Lucky"! in my best Napoleon Dynamite voice!
Garage Built Hondas q
Shocks... Nets... Lucky!
"You got like 3 feet of air that time!!!"
Do the chicken have talons?
I love napoleon dynamite. This milk tastes like the cow gof into an onion patch
Seeing clips from this TV series is so cool! I can't wait to watch the episodes in their entirety. My grandmother lived through a lot of the stuff I've been seeing in these clips. Always loved the stories she told about old America. Miss her a lot. Thanks Smithsonian Channel!
USS Maryland at 1:27
It’s a Colorado class battleship but it’s the Maryland
Thanks for that info 😁
But may I ask what are the names of the crusiers at 1:05?
Was the USS maryland in the attack of pearl harbor?
Batman Dude yes
I still would've died from a heart attack, even if I landed in the net
Is it great that Smithsonian Channel shows stuff like this video about old history things and yet Discovery Channel stop showing history and only shows shit like biker shows dumb shows.
Thx you Smithsonian for showing things like this we enjoy it 👍👌
Mike Lee haha so true they only show some crazy American bike freaks or smth like that
Yeah man i wish the vids were longer
Come here to get smarter. Go there to get dumber.
Seeing the 1930s and 1940s in colour makes us realise that the great grannies and grandads were young just like us. Had the same sort of challenges in life like us minus some technology.
Seeing WW2 in colour makes me connect with the heroes who look like us and sacrificed their young lives.
I really like the discovery channel and I'm not even american but one thing I dont like is most of the stuff is from 2012
That is a great video. My Grandfather helped put it together.
FIFA King who are you to tell him he didn’t?
@@kevin123456789994 if a random person says in yt his grandad fought in a ww2 THAN ITS BULLSHIT DICKHEAD
Agent Edgar Ross I mean, unless they provide some sort of proof.
The other half of my family on my dad’s side is related to a Spanish explorer who sailed to Florida and back. (They took a DNA test to look more into their family tree.)
I forget his name though-
But my cousins share his last name.
Your grandad did s good job of putting this video together mste
He's a good editor.
They should engrave the names of the brave men who lost their lives building the future on each entrance to the bridge
True
That's actually not a bad idea.
I remember going on that bridge when I was much younger, R.I.P to those who fell and thank you for the good memories.
And colorfilmed!? This is amazing!
I remember my grandmother went to see this and told me she was disappointed that it wasn't golden. I guess young people can't imagine a time that you could visit something like this and never seen a picture of it and have no way of seeing a picture of it where you lived. That's how it was kids. If you wanted to see what the Pyramids in Egypt looked like you went to your local library and they told you that book was out and they would write and let you know when it came in.
You can't imagine how difficult it was to get information and you might have no idea what a band that you loved even looked like. Famous building and famous cities you'd never seen a picture of. It's weird even for me to look back to life like that.
Didn't even know what the band you like looked like? What, were you growing up in the 1800s?
Patrick Jordan no, it wasn’t a better way to life back then.
@Patrick Jordan - Read my response. I didn't say pictures of bands didn't exist.
Here's an example - "Dark Side of the Moon" by 'Pink Floyd' is the fourth biggest selling album of all time. It doesn't have a picture of the band on it. Well, Pink Floyd was not on TV or in the press every week. So you might listen to that for a year and never know what the band looked like. Why would you?
Eventually, you'd see a picture of them as they are so massive but when it came to more alternative music that was never on TV or in the press you could own their album but never see a picture.
I remember this sort of thing happening to me. Hence my comment.
And no, I don't live in a cave and is it really necissary to be a rude when responding to a simply polite comment? I know you are an American but why not pretend you come from a decent culture where people treat each other respectfully?
@@AnyoneCanSee You have a bit of a condescending tone tbh. _You kids don't know what it was like_ blah blah blah
@@user-ellievator well how is it not true ?
Lives are more precious than a bridge being built.
WafelZ I respect you so much for commenting,and also of what you speak is true.
Women's lives are more precious, not men's, obviously.
Those men did sacrifice their lives for a reason. They wanted to build a better life of the everyday folk and families who lived there.
People could have more options when looking for work, meeting their relatives, the cities bring in much needed tourism to boost the incomes of the working class through increased visitor numbers back when the bridge was built.
1:26 imagine just crossing a bridge while a battleship sails under you
and then kids throw cheese sticks over the side LOL
I'll one up that with modern aircraft carriers "sailing" or "nuclearing" under her. Until Alameda close their naval shipyards back in the 90s of course.
If the bridge were to be built in 2020, it will never finish, due to an accidently killing of an endangered bird.
HAHAHAHAHHA
😭😭😭
"We have to delay construction for 15 years, a dog get scratched by a piece of wire so we need safety measures in place"
This gen is sensitive
@@kaylefinn5520 back in your days, you were naive and didn't have to worry about all those things because those problems weren't gonna happen in your gen. Now, we have to sort out problems previous generations have caused along with ours. An example is WW2. It was caused by the previous generation in WW1.
I cant imagine a thing that should get more appreciation and respect than this work...
"But nineteen only needed new underwear."
My great grandfather saw someone fall of the bridge while it was being built and didn't even come back for his paycheck he was out of there!
I think your great granddad was very wise...
No worries i'll go get it 😉
Hats off to the people that built such a bridge.Greetings from Argentina.
Impressive video. 100% color! That was back in the day when color photography - either moving or still was very rare and very expensive.
It Still amazes me every time I drive through the Golden Gate Bridge always puts a smile and good feeling in me
Wow! I had no idea the bridge was built so long ago. 😮
Thanks for out marvelous bridge!!
My great grandfather was there on the opening of the bridge he told me before he passed 4 years ago at the age of 91. Miss you grandpa
Imagine you are making a project and estimating someone will certainly die. That's the spirit.
Wow, I never knew the Golden Gate Bridge took many lives 🥺 Rest In Peace, thank you for the amazing bridge 🌉
And it's figuratively still taking more lives (1,800 known suicide deaths) and still counting. Only God knows the actual count.
And it was a major improvement over the death toll on other projects in that era. 96 died building Hoover Dam in the 1930s.
1:22
People casually crossing bridge
*battleship: hi how are ya*
Still can't believe that something this massive was built in the 1930's!
Nice to know that safety has come a long way. One death is unacceptable, no matter how many millions are spent 👍
You are wrong. Take your man bun and soy latte back to your moms basement.
I saw a man jump to his death holding his dog. Both died. It was terrible. I've never been able to get rid of the image. Rest in peace.
Much respect and love for those brave workers
A lady came into our village barbershop in the uk few years back with her 3 sons she was over from san fransico to see her family. She then told me everyday she drives over that bridge in the way to work. I don’t know why but it resonated with me and i new i had to see that bridge. What a marvel it is to see
"International orange which he thinks blends perfectly into the landscape"
Bruh
I love history so much
The West Gate Bridge in Melbourne, Australia had a total of 35 deaths and 18 Injured due to falling of the bridge while in construction
I have been in steel work and worked at a surface mine, been a salvage diver and was in the marines BUT that is real mans work there! And in those days they didnt have OSHA. Most worked without any safety harnesses. Miss that net and it's game over. Thats ballsy. Just like when they erected the skyscrapers. The wind blows harder the higher you get. A bad day is a real bad day. Much respect for the old school days and the men who helped build this Nation.
I live in the town that invented the steel wires holding up the bridge. i live right near the steel factory and it is abandoned. me and my friends explored the one building left and seen many cool machines and steel wire. really cool but they are turning it into the park at the building has security now.
What town?
My great great uncle was a builder on the gw bridge and fell but was able to grab onto some wires so he wouldn’t die, and his fingertips were burnt off.
1:24 Narrator: At the time, it was the longest suspension bridge
Me: yeah until it falls
Regarding 1:25, the Golden Gate Bridge has a span of 4,200-feet between its two towers, which was the longest span for a suspension bridge from 1937 until 1964.
Golden State Bridge: *Exist*
Movies: "What a lovely Bridge."
They are like soldiers.
No they aren't. Dont get me wrong, but being a soldier is something different
This looks like a great bridge can wait for it to get build!
This the first time I've ever seen an "It's brighter here" actually fit the content.
My great grandfather worked on the bridge, he saw a man fall to his death
that happened
It says the bridge spans from Oakland to San Francisco That is wrong
That would be be one of the world's longest 🌉.
Just drove on the bridge coming into the city just a couple minutes ago. Rest In Peace to those lost
Fantastic footage
I heard people can’t stop falling from the bridge...
Knock knock!
Who’s there?
Not OSHA
Imagine all the injuries and stories we don’t hear about that most don’t know.... crazy!
The fact that the first vehicles to cross the Golden Gate Bridge crossing on May 28th is sooo cool, cuz it’s the same day as my birthday!!
"New Deal project" ? Nonsense and revisionism. The individual landowners and city dwellers on either side of the Gate financed that Bridge.
Mob of the Dead Remastered HYPE
Sgt DeBones lmao
Sgt DeBones gtfo
Sgt DeBones dude really -_-
Ben Tennyson {Alien Force} says the fortnite bum
Amazing Constructions
Amazing video
Also the most suciadal bridge
Almost.
Because the ❄️❄️❄️
S U C I A D A L
Couldn’t they like just given them parachutes
@@daveweston9336 consider year 1930
in 1:13 why do i feel like a mafia 2 vibe lol
history is so beautiful!!!
Every large building or bridge cost at least one person their life to build.
Happy Festivus to all!
Today in 2020 there are houses in Pacific Heights of San Francisco that sell for 35M. Insane !
Ah yes the golden gate bridge , the bridge that pewdiepie went through once and never came back
rip for the jumpers 1500 plus
I love knowing the history of the Bay Area
I was fortunate enough to be able to cross The majestic GG Bridge every day for one year - a vision that you never get used to.
my parents be like thats the way we build bridges to get to school back in the days
It was not a New Deal Project. The Works Progress Administration built some of the approaches way after the counties and parts of the counties and towns/cities passed a municipal bond to pay for the bridge. Documentaries are supposed to be well researched and written. After knowing this, I wonder what other parts of this might be inaccurate or wrong.
I'm sure you'll let us know.
The hair is from heavy metal music culture. And I may well look to previous, or maybe future ages when men had and will have again decent hair. Looking at your picture it is most likely male pattern balding and some envy.
Future Hindsight And why did you assume he looked like a thumb might I ask?
Or rather, think?
You ever here about how many men are still in the Hoover dam?
I heard it was zero.
When these guys start putting full documentaries up for atleast premium memberships my life will be complete
Their video quality back in 1930’s were better then some smartphones we have today
Those were the good old days. None of those business-killing health and safety regulations then.
A bridge is worthless compared to 20 lifes
We need to stop building tall stuff or long stuff
It's all about looks nowadays
Yeah doing hard stuff is hard. Let's let robots do it. That won't lead to skynet or anything.
*spends $999,999*
Workers: why do I hear boss music
Less than a two minute video but I feel like I’ve watched a whole documentary.
"Bright American future"... ohh yeah our country is doing so great right now...
Shh... before BLM hears you and paints the bridge black
I survived by my safety vest back then,the pay was good!
sean williams this was the late 1930s but ok
mazaratik maybe he's immortal :O
Oh yes this bright orange color blends well with the landscape, amazing. 😆😆
Imagine wanting to see the final golden gate build, and then learn 30 workers Fell already
OH MY GOD I MADE THIS COMMENT 2 YEARS AGO AND NOW IM CRINGING SO HARD BUT YOU WILL NOW NEVER KNOW WHY I GOT 49 LIKES
Big gap between the bridge and the ground.
Just waiting for pathetic menimists and sexist pigs to stop being obsessed with feminists 🤡
@@jasamkojajesam6108 Feminists today are just for "fighting" with everything men's in this world. This is one of that why i can't take you seriously
Míra I’ve given up arguing with them
Why should there need to be a wage gap for the same job?
Correction: "30 MEN fell". Women don't do that type of dangerous work. They do safe jobs and moan about the pay gap.
wow you guys must really hate women bringing them up in video that has absolutely nothing to do with them
@@hiyou969 As you say, absolutely nothing to do with women. Therefore, the sacrifice of those MEN should be credited to the MEN who lost their lives.
@@jt21419 and it is credited to MEN you MEN in the comments are the ones who brought women into in the first place like what exactly is your point are you that desperate to attack women
Hi• you His point is that women, while it makes perfect sense that men get paid more, come out of no where complaining about a wage gap. Ridiculous!
@@hiyou969
Ironically, he was pointing out how the bridge had absolutely nothing to do with women.
WOW!!! a neat little tidbit ...the SF/OAKLAND bay bridge was started just 6 months after the Golden Gate bridge !!! 2 at the same time!!! and it has a decent bit of history itself...trains ran on the lower deck,trollys too...must have been an interesting time to live ...would have taken forever to get anywhere tho...the barbery coast,lol...they didnt even have trains till near 1860
How satisfying looking at those cars crossing the bridge. It's so perfect