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This is the first thing that is shown on movies if they want to say that people are in San Francisco, the first thing that they show is the bridge. So, a great history. Gotten a lot of really good attention. Thank you very much for coming here. [applause] harvey good evening, everybody and thank you very much for coming. I would like to thank george for having the program. And think the Commonwealth Club for having me. This evening, i plan to tell you several things about the bridge. First of all, i wrote this particular Book Building the and to givebridge, you some background about the bridge, and finally to read some selected passages from the book. I may labor historian who i am a labor historian who ventured into oral history in the 1980s. When i was working on a project for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union on the west coast. A very famous union. I interviewed some veterans for the labor archives at San Francisco state university. For the director there. These are ve