[pyuser583]

Back in the 80s the city of SF encouraged people to walk in the GG Bridge to celebrate its 50th anniversary.

Almost destroyed the bridge and killed everyone on it.

[throwaway_kufu]

I feel like I remember that, but might be confusing it with another bridge incident. I remember there being elephants in the celebration, significant “waves” in the bridge and some pretty serious injuries...but again I may be confusing it with another incident.

Edit: watched video, GG flattened out. Not sure what I am remembering and maybe mixing up a few bridge “disasters” and collapses into one.

[brabel]

I looked it up and it seems that's not what happened.

_While there were some injuries, there were no fatalities and the bridge was not damaged._

_The weight of the 300,000 people flattened the normally arched roadbed, although bridge engineers later said there was never any real danger._

Source: https://www.sfgate.com/local-donotuse/article/Golden-Gate-br...