PAUL FORESTER (DATES UNKNOWN) SAN FRANCISCO / OAKLAND BAY BRIDGE CELEBRATION. 1936.
40x28 inches, 101 1/2x71 cm. Security Lithograph Co., San Francisco.
Condition B+: losses and tears at edges; creases and staining in margins and image. Paper.
The eight and one-quarter mile long Bay Bridge in San Francisco opened for traffic on November 12, 1936, three years after construction began. The four-day celebration that accompanied the opening was an enormous and impressive social undertaking, worthy of the unparalleled engineering feat. The festivities included speeches by such dignitaries as former President Herbert Hoover, parades, military pageants, football games, river boat races, a massed flight of Navy aircraft, a yacht regatta and much more. This image was also used on the cover of the official program. This is the rarer, large format.