When San Francisco Considered Putting a Roller Coaster on the Golden Gate Bridge
Nobody can accuse Joseph Bazzigin of unjust. In 1938, Bazzeghin, a self -designed businessman, Delivery A proposal for San Francisco officials. He said that what was the well -known golden gate bridge was missing roller coaster Missiles via suspension cables.
In Bazzeghin’s mindThe gravity can be at the forefront of 220 miles per hour – from any cylindrical company, with a 750 -foot stolen decrease. The infrastructure was already in: All the city had to do was do some simple additions, and they had one of the largest and best entertainment in the country. Or, as he insisted on that, “(The) will be more exciting in the life of anyone.”
As it seems, the city authorities did something unexpected: they took Bazzigin seriously.
The rise
The legendary prevention was somewhat modern in the thirties of the twentieth century. These tours, which were built on the “stunning railway railway” ride that became common in the nineteenth century. Prevention It was pushed at high speeds along the tracks with a cosmic hurricane, which can reach more than 60 miles per hour.
Bazzeghin plan went forward. He is invented by two two, Connecticut, who had collected steam engines and an early copy of a jet package, believes that the Golden Gate Bridge can accommodate the ship across the current towers, thus eliminating the initial cost of building a support structure. But it was also a large part of the promotion: San Francisco Treasure Island was to host the 1939 Gate Gold Show, a type of world exhibition aimed at drawing attention to the city and amenities. Just as the Olympic cities erect buildings, San Francisco can spread the rotating ship.
In fact, two of them.
An idea outside bars
The Bazzenin Stadium, which was transferred to the city authorities in the Ministry of Public Works in the summer of 1938, included setting the prevention on both the newly built Golden Gate Bridge and the Oakland Bay Bridge, where the tracks will be added to the suspension cables. For the latter, a visualization of an elevator will go to the top of the third tower, where those present can ride a car 220 miles per hour. There will be seven total drops, including one 500 feet fell. The car will be immersed for a while underwater in San Francisco Bay. Golden Gate Bridge Coaster, called Bazzeghin, will be similar, from which the water break (Pdf).
“If you look at a suspended bridge, especially the San Francisco Oakland Bay bridge with its four towers and three main exercises, you will see that the flabby cables also consist of a series of high hills in the tops of the towers and low valleys in the middle of the Pan “The natural cable declining on the suspension bridges is very slope to provide an exciting journey, and not very highly slope to intimidate people as is the case with roller prevention.”
Even Bazzegan went to a problem in facing what the city’s arguments are expected to be. safety? It was not more dangerous, and he insisted, from setting up a tall building or expanding the railway path. beloved? The structure is already built. It was not intended from the bridges to host the rotating ship? “This is not a logical reason for opposing this trip, because new developments are constantly added to old or complete structures, including bridges, to improve and update them, and therefore (there) there is no reason to distinguish on this account.”
He concluded that it was a “very simple relationship.” The entire process can be secured on the bridges using “clamps”.
“Great attractiveness”
Although his proposal overcomes confident words like So and thusCity officials were concerns. For one reason, the city did not even allow the traffic on the infantry on the Gulf Bridge, not to mention a car full of fire through the suspension cables. some Express Fear shepherds end up from the ship, or that passengers may suffocate from wind resistance or surrender to “nervous tension”.
There was also the problem of car drivers traveling below. “There are many objections to your suggestion,” Eng. CH Purcell wrote in a blatant response. “There is enough is the fact that the cars on the ship are moving at speeds that you suggest (from 175 to 200 miles per hour) that would distract the attention of car operators on the bridge to increase the possibility of the accident … on this land alone, we will have to refuse your suggestion.”
Bazzigin mocked fears, to reject They have “the usual resistance that hinders the acceptance of all new ideas.” He wrote that the distraction of drivers was not existing because the cars will be in the stage of drivers, and often “spelling” in the tall structure anyway. He even concluded that the lack of structural concerns means that his idea was sound – so the only problem is that it was a very big scene.
“You directly recognize this project that does not have serious mistakes,” Bazzigin shot. “It is rejected because it is a great attractiveness … it’s very good.”
But it was not. After deliberation, the power of the outcome bridge Veto The idea.
The director of the authority wrote: “Although you have no doubt that you are my conscience in your own perception of the feasibility of the proposed institution, he is familiar with the material, financial and legal features of the bridge, we do not consider your project to be adaptive to.”
Bazzigin’s ambitions were unlikely. In 2013, Park Greg Sanders He said CBS such a project cost hundreds of millions and is likely to be a practical impossibility.
Bazzeghin’s future was never good documented, although his willingness to keep motorists later questioned at a later time. In 1945, a step comes out of his truck to push Complex.
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