Golden Gate Bridge

The Golden Gate Bridge is a suspension bridge spanning the Golden Gate, the opening into the San Francisco Bay from the Pacific Ocean. It connects the city of San Francisco on the northern tip of the San Francisco Peninsula and a portion of the south-facing Marin County headlands near the small bayside town of Sausalito, and is located at {{coor dm|37|49|N|122|29|W|300000}}. The entire bridge including the approach spans is 1.7 miles (2,727 m) long, the distance between the towers ("main span") is 4200 feet (1280 m), and their height is 746 feet (230 m) above the water.

The Golden Gate Bridge in fiction and film

• In the Star Trek universe, in both the 23rd and 24th Centuries, Starfleet Headquarters and Starfleet Academy are located in San Francisco's Presidio, with a view of the Golden Gate Bridge. In Star Trek Enterprise, the original location of Starfleet Command is located NE of the bridge. Instead of a direct view of traffic lanes and whatever transportation technology is employed, there is an obscuring weatherproof glass arch cover. Perhaps everyone travels the bridge by walking and bicycle in this future time, since purposeful travel may be done quickly by the transporter technology common in starships. In ', the Klingon bird-of-prey used by the crew of the Starship Enterprise flies under the Golden Gate Bridge on its way to crashing into the Bay. Later, in ', the Golden Gate Bridge is destroyed during the Dominion War in an attack by the Breen on San Francisco.
• The bridge is a prominent backdrop in Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo (1958) in a scene set just east (bayside) of Fort Point, with the bridge in the background.
• The bridge is seen prominently in the opening sequence of the soap opera Love is a Many Splendored Thing, which was set in San Francisco.
• The bridge plays a significant role in the climactic scene of the James Bond film A View to a Kill (1985).
• In The Core, deadly microwaves from the sun break through the magnetic field and melt the bridge before frying the rest of San Francisco.
• In Superman, Superman saves a school bus about to fall from the bridge.
• In the Japanese science fiction film Mothra, the bridge is destroyed by the collision of a large nuclear mutant monster.
• In Hulk, the Hulk jumps off the bridge to save a fighter jet.
• In George of the Jungle, George climbs and strolls on the Golden Gate Bridge as if it were his beloved jungle, and rescues a stranded worker.
• In Charmed, scenes of the Golden Gate Bridge can be seen.
• In Dirty Harry, "Scorpio" hijacks a school bus full of children and forces the driver to head North across the bridge.
• In The West Wing, a terrorist attempt to blow up the Golden Gate Bridge sparks a plot line involving the US assassination of the Qumari intelligence minister (who masterminded the plot to blow up the bridge).
• In the TV movie 10.5, an earthquake destroys the bridge.
• The bridge is seen in the opening credits of the television show Too Close for Comfort (1980-1985) and its spin-off The Ted Knight Show (1985-1986). It is also seen in the opening credits of Full House.
• In the video game ' (2004), an exact model of this bridge is featured in the city San Fierro, San Andreas. Although it is called Gant Bridge in the game, it could possibly be named that by combining the words "golden" and "gate."
• Jenni Olson's film, The Joy of Life (2005) offers a history of suicide and the Golden Gate Bridge and features gorgeously shot images of the Bridge as well as a personal reflection on the production history of Alfred Hitchcock's film Vertigo (1958).
• Alistair MacLean's novel The Golden Gate is a kidnapping story set almost exclusively on the Golden Gate Bridge.