- City:
- San Francisco, CA
- Site Type:
- Lighting, Infrastructure and Utilities, Roads, Bridges, and Tunnels
- New Deal Agencies:
- Work Relief Programs, Works Progress Administration (WPA)
- Completed:
- 1940
- Quality of Information:
- Minimal
- Marked:
- No
- Site Survival:
- Unknown
Description
A 1940 report identifies the Works Progress Administration (WPA) as having worked on lighting for the Golden Gate bridge, but provides no further details. The work was probably done in 1939-40. Since no federal agencies were involved in the construction of the Golden Gate bridge itself, and the WPA and Public Works Administration (PWA) were involved in building all the approach roads to the bridge, it is most likely that this report is referring to lighting along the approaches not on the bridge itself.
Further confirmation is needed.
Source notes
William R. Lawson. Achievements, Federal Works Agency. Work Projects Administration, Northern California. Work Progress Administration (San Francisco, 1940). p. 68.
Site originally submitted by Evan Kalish on September 26, 2010.
Additional contributions by Richard Walker.
At this Location:
- Golden Gate Bridge: Lyon Street Approach - San Francisco CA
- Golden Gate Bridge: Northern Approach Road - Sausalito CA
- Golden Gate Bridge: Doyle Drive Approach (demolished) - San Francisco CA
- Golden Gate Bridge: Veterans Boulevard Approach Road and Tunnel - San Francisco CA
- Golden Gate Bridge: Alexander Avenue Approach - Sausalito CA
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