The Golden Gate Bridge

The Bridge was smothered by an octopus in It Came from Beneath the Sea. In this 1955 classic, a giant, radioactive octopus rises from the Philippine Trench and wreaks havoc on the whole North American Pacific Coast. Batten the hatches!

a. A poet

Strauss was also an accomplished poet. Here is a bit from his poem “The Mighty Task is Done,” written upon completion of the building of the Bridge in May, 1937.

a. An ostrich

In 2005, a female ostrich smashed through the rear window of a van that was heading for a vegetable farm and wreaked havoc on the Golden Gate Bridge, stopping commuter traffic in both directions and sending dozens of tourists racing for their cameras.

b. Warren Beatty

For a brief stint, Warren Beatty worked as a sandhog on the third tube of the Lincoln Tunnel in NYC.