The State - News from March 8, 1987
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Pedestrians may have to get up at dawn to walk along the Golden Gate Bridge at its 50th birthday celebration May 24. The bridge board vetoed a proposal to close the San Francisco landmark to motorists for seven hours during the day, after receiving protests from law enforcement officials who said that such an event would back up traffic for 40 miles. “Friends of the Golden Gate Bridge,” who are sponsoring the birthday bash, envisioned a million people strolling the deck, as people did in 1937 when it opened.
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