A fog-shrouded Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco (© Della Huff/Alamy)

【May 27 2015】In the 1800s, ferry service was the only means of public transportation between San Francisco and the communities of Marin County that lay across San Francisco Bay. As a result, people had long been calling for a bridge to span the Golden Gate strait at the mouth of the bay. An engineering student’s 1916 bridge proposal inspired real progress toward construction, then engineer Joseph Strauss took the concept and worked to get financial backing. Eventually Leon Moisseiff, who designed the Manhattan Bridge, collaborated with architect Irving Morrow and engineer Charles Alton Ellis to come up with the plans for the suspension bridge that is now perhaps the preeminent symbol of this northern California city.Explore breathtaking Gallery from the HuluTrip homepage over the past 5 years..