San Francisco Is Putting the Golden Gate Bridge at the Center of America’s 250th Birthday
Fireworks will be launched from the city’s most famous landmark for only the third time in its history. If you were lucky enough to enjoy the 75th Anniversary show like I did, you know it is definitely something worth checking out.
San Francisco has never needed much encouragement to turn the Golden Gate Bridge into a symbol of the city. It appears on postcards, company logos (The first CrawlSF logo had a version of the Golden Gate Bridge like a lot of companies all over the Bay), television broadcasts and nearly every list of places a visitor should see. To locals, it is a way to get back and forth from San Francisco to Marin, Wine Country and the rest of the North Bay. It can also be a difficult part of your day if there is a lot of traffic or a shut down of the bridge. However, people around the world view it as a symbol of the city of San Francisco and one of the most recognizable landmarks in the nation…