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San Francisco was originally named Jevabuena. In 1847, the Mexicans named San Francisco in Spanish, which is literally translated to San Francisco , and Taiwanese people call it San Francisco . It is said that a carpenter caused a world gold rush by accidentally discovering gold while pushing a waterwheel. It was called Kingsoft at that time, and then it changed its name to distinguish , Melbourne, , and then changed its name to the present. A large number of Chinese people were trafficked here to work hard to dig gold mines, and then settled down here to live and reproduce.
San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
As a Pacific coastal port city, San Francisco is a mountain city surrounded by water on three sides. The city scale is California second only to Los Angeles. It is also the largest financial center in the United States and West, an important high-tech and R&D and manufacturing base. Those well-known names in the new era of history - Silicon Valley are here, Apple , Google , HP , Intel , and Oracle are also here; Stanford , and the University of California, Berkeley are all here.
San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
I turned around here when I first came to North America, and I just looked down at this low city from a high altitude. I have always been confused. If a person throws a handful of stones on the street, he can hit a group of "engineering men". Could the legendary so-called literary style be scraped out of thin air from Rocky Mountains ?
San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
Visiting San Francisco, you can't avoid the Golden Gate Bridge, which is the symbol of its city. A bridge flies north and south, spans the 1900-meter-wide Kinmen Strait , connecting San Francisco and Marin County opposite the strait. It is said that the economic downturn during the Second World War was in a state of controversy. The federal government adopted the method of taxpayers raising and issuing bonds, raising $35.5 million in bridge construction funds.
Kingmen Bridge designer Joseph Strauss statue
1579, British explorer Francis Drake discovered the Kinmen Strait. Hundreds of years later, bridge engineer Joseph Strauss designed the Golden Gate Bridge with structural forms as suspension bridges and steel truss arch bridges. It started construction in January 1933 and completed in May 1937, which took four years and consumed tens of thousands of tons of steel.
little girl plays under the feet of the designer's statue
Unfortunately, Joseph, an engineer from Chicago , designed and built more than 400 bridges in his life. He died the second year after the bridge opened to traffic. He was 68 years old. The federal government commemorated him at the southern end of the bridge.
San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
is a two-way traffic for motor vehicles. As the main road of San Francisco, it flows endlessly, day and night. It is said that the traffic volume of motor vehicles in the year when it was opened to traffic was 3.31 million, and the daily traffic volume in 2017 reached 110,000. In order to solve the problem of vehicle travel during peak periods, it uses an immediate adjustment device, namely, the four lanes south in the morning and the two lanes north in the morning, and the other way around in the afternoon. There was a construction vehicle running and spitting, and the isolation piles were returned to position one by one like a zipper.
San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
Bridge is the east side of the Health Trail for tourists to stroll on the bridge deck and cherish it. At the same time, because it faces the mountain city, it can be used as an excellent background for taking photos. On the west side of the bridge is the bicycle cycling path, and there are car rentals at both the north and south ends of the bridge for citizens and tourists to ride and exercise. I only walked half of the bridge. The bridge was high and the wind was strong, and it was a little chilly. Looking up at the tower in the sky, I suddenly felt dizzy.
Cruise ships and sailboats under the Golden Gate Bridge
Bridge has been completed less than a hundred years ago. More than 1,400 bankrupt, unemployed, frustrated and heartbroken people have committed suicide by climbing railings on the bridge corridor and dying from the sea. Especially around 2005, there were people who dived on the platform every two weeks, and the historical record of 46 people in 2013. San Francisco has few high-rise buildings as an earthquake-prone area, and the Kinmen Bridge has been called a "sacred place for suicide" due to its 67-meter drop. The government departments were unable to understand and had to install a protective net that would ruin the scenery in some bridges.
San Francisco Golden Gate Bridge
If Brooklyn Bridge is a symbol of modern science, then the Golden Gate Bridge is not only a miracle of modern bridge engineering in the world, but also a huge work of art. The bridge body is a "international orange" with a mixture of red, yellow and black colors. It lies across the blue and white waves. When the morning light is slightly dew, in the dusk, in the lights of the moon, in the misty rain, under the rain, fog, adding a beautiful rainbow to San Francisco.
1906 San Francisco Earthquake. Image source network
In the early morning of April 18, 1906, a magnitude 8.25 earthquake occurred in San Francisco, and a fire broke out in the city caused by the cracking of the gas pipeline. It is said that dazzling fires and thick smoke soaring into the sky can still be clearly seen 80 kilometers away. The fire burned for three days and three nights, killing 3,200 people and leaving 250,000 homeless. It is said that a complete house could not be found.
San Francisco Palace of Art
San Francisco Palace of Art
After post-disaster reconstruction, the 1915 Panama Pacific International Fair marked the resurrection of San Francisco from the ruins. The exhibition attracted 18 million merchants to visit this tour. After the closing, most of the magnificent buildings and structures were demolished, and the remaining art palaces were also abandoned and were temporarily reserved for the army to park during World War II.
San Francisco Palace of Art
San Francisco Palace of Art
Until nearly half a century later, in 1962, a German architect named Bernard Maybeck was redesigned and rebuilt by the federal government. It cost only $350,000, which made this temporary building that should have been demolished rejuvenate and shine, adding a touch of petty bourgeoisie to the city.
San Francisco Palace of Art
San Francisco Palace of Art
The designer won by sculpture and other details. Its architectural style looks very similar to the ruins of Ancient Roman from a distance, and the main building is quite similar to the Mausoleum of Napoleon in the center of Paris. The reflection in the water adds a lot of charm and charm to the buildings and structures, and it is both illusory and true in the interaction of light and shadow, and complements each other.
San Francisco Art Palace
Many local newlyweds used this antique building with the phoenix's Nirvana as the location for wedding photos, becoming a landscape in the scenery. Tourists are happy to use them as the beautiful and vitality in the camera. I believe that every couple is willing to use the tourists' enviable eyes as a kind of heartfelt blessing from afar or even a foreign country.
San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf
From The Fisherman's Wharf, which roughly includes the area from Gladley Square in the northern waters to Pier 35. The terminal freight function has long been moved, and rows of large warehouses have been converted into public parking lots. The bay is full of yachts of various shapes of wealthy people. sea lion . Seals stay on the dock to warm up, in groups of three or five, looking cute.
San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf
San Francisco Fisherman's Wharf
After upgrading and transformation, Fisherman's Wharf is quite imitated with the City God Temple in the Magic City, and it has everything to eat, drink and have fun for local people to reminisce and foreigners to hunt for curiosity. Almost every restaurant along the street offers a delicacy called "Clam Chowder". It hollows the bread into a bowl, cuts seafood, beef or chicken into diced with cheese, which can be said to be "a trick to eat all over the world."
San Francisco Pelican Island
Looking east from the Golden Gate Bridge or looking north from Fisherman's Wharf, there is a small island named Pelican in the bay. Because prisoners were imprisoned and it was too bloody, it is called Alcatraz . It is said that blockbusters such as " Break into the Deadly Island ", " Jedi Mission ", and "Escape at Atlanta" are all filmed here, which reminds me of "The Earl of Monte Cristo" by Dumas and Napoleon's "Cors of Corsica . Nowadays, nearly 1.5 million tourists take boats to the island to look for excitement every year, and it is said that they need to book several weeks in advance; we should avoid it.
San Francisco steep slope urban roads
Excluding 1905, there were major earthquakes in San Francisco in 1851, 1858, 1865 and 1868. The latest 6.9-magnitude earthquake in 1989 caused major adjustments to urban planning. The city is a typical hilly area, with many streets such as Nob, Russian, Telegraph almost straight up and down. The driver who has not walked the mountain road will inevitably become weak in his ankles. I'm very curious, what to do when it's snowing? Locals say that winter is cold and there is less snow. It seems that I am worried about nothing, just be heartless.
San Francisco "Jiuquhua Street"
Nearly a hundred years ago, in order to let the crowded traffic breathe, someone intercepted a very short section from Hyde to Leavenworth on the long street of Lombard, and used a 40-degree steep slope to transform it into eight Z-shaped sharp turns, calling itself "Jiuquhua Street". It is said that there are hydrangeas in spring, roses in summer, and chrysanthemums in autumn, and it is stipulated that they can only line down. Unfortunately, around winter, I waited until the flowers faded. After experiencing many ancient Panlong Roads in China, what is this? Since it comes, it will be "Z".
San Francisco night. Picture source network
San Francisco Union Square
Night fell, we scrambled duck egg yolks in a Cantonese restaurant, and then hang out with Union Square (Union Square) where Christmas lights shine together. It is said that this is the largest shopping center in San Francisco. It is full of high-end boutiques such as West West Department Store, tourist accessories stores, art galleries, cultural salons, antique stores and bookstores. It has convenient transportation and is world-class, and is not inferior to Manhattan on the East Coast. But the trip was in a hurry, and I just sat in the darkness of the square to feel the evening breeze.
