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Yeah, The Golden Gate Bridge gets its name because it spans what's called the Golden Gate straight.
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This is a three mile long and one mile wide body of water that connects the Pacific Ocean to the San Francisco Bay.
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Before the Golden Gate Bridge, there was a bustling ferry system that ran people and commerce between San Francisco and the Redwood Empire to the north.
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It's actually unknown how many people worked on the Golden Gate Bridge at the time of construction because records were scarce from that time.
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Uh, today we have close to 200 employees who work to maintain to paint toe weld thio.
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Make sure that the bridge is in good on safe operating condition.
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So we're right now getting sand blasting on the outer part of the bridge, which is up underneath right now where the walkway is, where the pedestrians, right after 3 30.
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So the car's air probably just about 15 ft out.
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You can't feel it, but the bridges by moving, you know, like this house.
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We're standing in a containment like this.
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A rough estimate.
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16 people sandblasting for a month and a half are painters will go out to the most critical.
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You know, structural areas of the bridge where the fog and the salt and the wind has corroded the paint.
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The salt eats this bridge, the fog Eat this bridge up.
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If we don't continue to paint it, it's just gonna rot away.