Myths and heroes

« their money and bought shares at the stock exchange to back the project and the help from the foundater of The Bank of America, the construction finally began in 1933. From this moment, thousands of workers moved tons of dirt and rocks to make way for almost 200,000 cubic yards of concrete needed to build the basis.

Then 900,000 tons of steel were used, a staggering 1.2 million rivets were hammered into each tower which in turn support the 2 main cables, cables that are 36 inches in diameter and inside each of those 80,000 miles of wire (which is enough to crisscross the country 13 times). And while working on some parts of the bridge simple workers became death-defying acrobats, but safety mattered to Joseph Strauss.

Indeed it was the first time such safety measures had/have been taken : harnesses, helmets, special creams for the wind and the sun and huge safety nets.

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even invented a remedy with cabbage against hangover considering/since his workers were as active at work as afterward.

While/And although 11 men did perish, 19 were saved by those measures (especially by the nets which prevented them from plummeting to their deaths). Finally, in 1937 the Golden Gate Bridge was inaugurated.

It took less than 5 years to end the construction of this bridge which pushed the limits of the technically possible at this time and which would be the longest suspension bridge until 1964.

5 years is a really short period of time for such a project in the 30's.  What the engineers dreamed up and workers then built was nothing short of a miracle; and according to a ranking of the ?American Society of Civil Engineers?, the work of art is one of the new seven wonders of the modern world. By means of/Through all of this we can consider the Golden Gate Bridge and its story as mythical. (Joseph Straus, a hero ?) Now I'll deal with something else, which made San Francisco a mythical place, or more like someone else.

It's the story of another man whose last name is Strauss.

However his first name is way more famous as it's the name of an international brand : Levi, creator of Levi's ( (which is the diminutive of Levi Strauss & Co).

Before talking about what Levi Strauss did to create the myth of Levi's jeans, let's introduce him and the beginning of his life a little bit.

Paradoxically Levi isn't from San Francisco, indeed he was born in Germany in the late 20's (1829) and he was the youngest of 6 children.

This man had a tough childhood, first because he was Jewish and back then/at that time Jews were at the bottom of the social ladder, they were despised and ostracized by (the?). »