California has the highest mountains, deepest valleys, best climate, loveliest women, mightiest men, craziest cults and most enthusiastic boosters of any State in the Union. It is therefore fitting that this superlative State should have the world's most extraordinary bridge, opened last week in true Californian style with a bang-up jamboree.
First proposed in 1856, the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge was not begun until May 1933. To celebrate its opening, California scheduled a three-day fiesta which officially began with speeches at the bridgehead at the Oakland end. Rabbi A. A. Stern offered prayers...
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