David sent me a great sparkly photo of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. The clouds and the rainbow sparkle.  The Golden Gate Bridge is one of the most recognizable features of San Francisco and of California. The American Society of Civil Engineers named it one of the Wonders of the Modern World. Construction began on 5 January 1933, and was completed and opened on 27 May 1937. The project cost US$35 million (US$523 million in 2019 dollars). When opened it became the longest (1280m) and tallest (227m) suspension bridge in the world. The bridge used movable safety nets for the largely unprotected iron workers. Eleven men died from falls during construction - ten on one day. On 17 February 1937, twelve men fell when the safety net failed under the stress of a scaffold that had fallen with men on it. Two of the men survived the fall into San Francisco Bay, including foreman Slim Lambert. Nineteen men were saved by the safety net during constructions and they started their own ...