Bay Area Iron Master Al Zampa A Life Building Bridges

Author : Isabelle Maynard,John V. Robinson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 9781625856470

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Bay Area Iron Master Al Zampa by Isabelle Maynard,John V. Robinson Pdf

Alfred Zampa didn't know what he was getting into when he took a construction job in 1925 on the Carquinez Bridge, one of the first to cross San Francisco Bay. Despite the risk, Zampa relished the challenge and embarked on an illustrious career that made him a local legend. His impressive feats of iron craft are evident in numerous spans, including the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate, as well as others across the country. He was one of the first to survive a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge, making him a founding member of the Halfway to Hell Club in 1936. The Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, named to honor the man after his death, replaced the first bridge he had worked on nearly eighty years earlier. This remarkable story of skill, grit and enduring spirit is told through oral histories collected by John Robinson and Isabelle Maynard.

Author : John Robinson
Publisher : History Press Library Editions
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2015-11-30
Category : History
ISBN : 1540203123

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Bay Area Iron Master Al Zampa by John Robinson Pdf

Author : Isabelle Maynard & John V. Robinson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781467119139

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Bay Area Iron Master Al Zampa: A Life Building Bridges by Isabelle Maynard & John V. Robinson Pdf

Alfred Zampa didn't know what he was getting into when he look a construction job in 1925 on the Carquinez Bridge, one of the first to cross San Francisco Kay. Despite the risk, Zampa relished the challenge and embarked 011 an illustrious career that made him a local legend. His impressive feats of iron craft are evident in numerous spans, including the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate, as well as others across the country. He was one of the first to survive a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge, making him a founding member of the Halfway to Hell Club in 1936. The Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, named to honor the man after his death, replaced the first bridge he had named on nearly eighty years earlier. This remarkable story of skill, grit is told through oral histories collected by John Robinson Isabelle Maynard. Book jacket.

Author : John V. Robinson
Publisher : America Through Time
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1634990447

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The Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge Troll by John V. Robinson Pdf

"In November of 1989, as workers were finishing their repairs to the quake damaged section of the Oakland-San Francisco Bay Bridge, an 18-inch metal sculpture of a troll was smuggled onto the bridge and welded into place on the structure. Known in popular culture as the "Bay Bridge Troll" the little figure has been the source of much media and public speculation now that a new replacement span is open and the old bridge is being demolished. In this book, writer and photographer John V. Robinson traces the story of the Bay Bridge Troll from its creation in 1989 to its removal in August 2013. The details of the Bay Bridge Troll are curious: the troll was made by someone who didn't initially take credit for it, put on the bridge illegally, and removed without permission. Who has the troll now? Where will it end up? The eastern span of old Bay Bridge is history. But the troll remains, a mute witness to one of the world's great bridges. Who, if anyone, really owns the troll? Like the Maltese Falcon from the old movie (another story of small statuette that takes place in San Francisco), can anyone be said to own the troll except by right of possession?"--Provided by publisher.

Author : John V. Robinson
Publisher : America Through Time
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2016-11-28
Category : San Francisco Bay Area (Calif.)
ISBN : 1634990145

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Carquinez Bridge, 1927-2007 by John V. Robinson Pdf

On May 21, 1927 the Carquinez Bridge opened to traffic between Crockett and Vallejo, California. Just a few miles north of San Francisco, the Carquinez Bridge was the longest highway bridge in the world when it opened. It was also the first bridge across any part of the San Francisco Bay. The reason you have never heard of this magnificent bridge is because its opening was upstaged by Charles Lindbergh's landing in Paris! For most of its working life the Carquinez Bridge lived in the shadow of its more famous siblings: the Oakland Bay Bridge and the mighty Golden Gate Bridge. Still, the Carquinez Bridge was an engineering triumph. Designed by the great engineer David Steinman, the mighty Carquinez was built using new construction techniques and was the first bridge to use earthquake buffers in the design. A second twin Bridge was opened in 1958 and third replacement bridge was opened in 2003. From 2005 through 2007 the old bridge was deconstructed in reverse order of its construction. In this book John V. Robinson takes readers on a photographic journey through time as he documents the birth, life, and death of one of America's great bridges.

Author : Grey Owl
Publisher : Dundurn
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-26
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781770705777

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Pilgrims of the Wild by Grey Owl Pdf

First published in 1935, Pilgrims of the Wild is Grey Owl’s autobiographical account of his transition from successful trapper to preservationist. With his Iroquois wife, Anahereo, Grey Owl set out to protect the environment and the endangered beaver. Powerful in its simplicity, Pilgrims of the Wild tells the story of Grey Owl’s life of happy cohabitation with the wild creatures of nature and the healing powers of what he referred to as "the great Northland" of "Over the Hills and Far Away." A bestseller at the time, Pilgrims of the Wild helped establish Grey Owl’s international reputation as a conservationist. His legacy of warnings against the degradations of nature and the dangers of industry live on, despite the posthumous revelation that he wasn’t, in fact, the First Nations man he claimed to be.

Author : R. E. Appleman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1964
Category : World War, 1939-1945
ISBN : OCLC:1344451548

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Okinawa by R. E. Appleman Pdf

Author : United States. Marine Corps,Edwin T. Turnbladh
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 506 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1960
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UIUC:30112083840998

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Hold High the Torch by United States. Marine Corps,Edwin T. Turnbladh Pdf

Author : Carlo Ginzburg
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 0231119607

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Wooden Eyes by Carlo Ginzburg Pdf

Ginzburg, "the preeminent Italian historian of his generation [who] helped create the genre of microhistory" ("New York Times"), ruminates on how perspective affects what we see and understand. 26 illustrations.

Author : Isabelle Maynard
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1587291444

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China Dreams by Isabelle Maynard Pdf

An unusually structured memoir reflecting an equally unique childhood. Maynard paints her youth as a Russian Jewish emigre in Tientsin, China, with short, broad strokes, recreating conversations and events in short vignettes and vividly conveying the "alien" community separated from the Chinese and each other by virtue of the difference none seem prepared to bridge. The characters, a British diplomat's wife and daughter, the anti-semitic Russian Orthodox Christians, the French nuns, all take on a new life through the author's sure footed and sensitive prose. Includes photographs. Paper edition (unseen), $13.95. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Kriss Ravetto
Publisher : U of Minnesota Press
Page : 310 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 0816637431

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The Unmaking of Fascist Aesthetics by Kriss Ravetto Pdf

In works by filmmakers from Bertolucci to Spielberg, debauched images of nazi and fascist eroticism, symbols of violence and immorality, often bear an uncanny resemblance to the images and symbols once used by the fascists themselves to demarcate racial, sexual, and political others. This book exposes the "madness" inherent in such a course, which attests to the impossibility of disengaging visual and rhetorical constructions from political, ideological, and moral codes. Kriss Ravetto argues that contemporary discourses using such devices actually continue unacknowledged rhetorical, moral, and visual analogies of the past. Against postwar fictional and historical accounts of World War II in which generic images of evil characterize the nazi and the fascist, Ravetto sets the more complex approach of such filmmakers as Pier Paolo Pasolini, Liliana Cavani, and Lina Wertmuller. Her book asks us to think deeply about what it means to say that we have conquered fascism, when the aesthetics of fascism still describe and determine how we look at political figures and global events. Book jacket.

Author : John V. Robinson,Veronica Crane
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : History
ISBN : 0738546542

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Port Costa by John V. Robinson,Veronica Crane Pdf

Port Costa may be a quiet place now, but it wasnt always thus. The town was born in 1879, when the Central Pacific Railroad built its southern ferry-transfer slip at the mouth of the Bull Valley. For 50 years, trains, passengers, and cargo were transported across the Carquinez Strait from Benicia. A thriving waterfront community with a wild side reminiscent of San Franciscos Barbary Coast sprang up around the ferry terminal and grew during the California wheat boom of the 1880s and 1890s. During this time, Port Costa became one of the busiest ports on the West Coast. The wheat ships and ferryboats are gone now, but Port Costa remains a popular local tourist destination for people who wish to catch a glimpse of Contra Costa Countys historic past.

Author : John V. Robinson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-09-22
Category : Photography
ISBN : 9781439614310

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Crockett by John V. Robinson Pdf

The small town of Crockett rests on the shore of the Carquinez Strait, a narrow shipping waterway running from San Francisco Bay into the Sacramento Delta region. Crockett's early history was heavily influenced by the shipping industry, and the shoreline was filled with warehouses and wharves. Twin cantilever bridges across the Carquinez Strait at Crockett distinguish the town's skyline from other ports in the area. A third span was recently added across the strait and named in honor of Crockett native Alfred Zampa. Much of Crockett's identity has been associated with the C&H sugar refinery, and for more than 50 years, Crockett was a devoted company town.

Author : John V. Robinson
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : History
ISBN : 9780738529967

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Al Zampa and the Bay Area Bridges by John V. Robinson Pdf

Most of the commuters who daily cross the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge do not know much about its namesake. Yet Alfred Zampa (1905-2000) lived a remarkable life that touched not only the bridge named in his honor, but many of the other bridges around the Bay Area. An active ironworker from 1925 on, he typified a worker who was hardy and tough, but with the skill to perform extremely precise work under hazardous conditions. He often worked hundreds of feet above the San Francisco Bay with only the spindliest of support, and he fell from the Golden Gate Bridge in 1936. Caught by the safety net, he became a charter member of the ultra-exclusive "Halfway to Hell" club. Zampa died at the age of 95, six weeks after attending the groundbreaking of his namesake Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, the only bridge named in honor of a building tradesman. The Images of America series celebrates the history of neighborhoods, towns, and cities across the country. Using archival photographs, each title presents the distinctive stories from the past that shape the character of the community today. Arcadia is proud to play a part in the preservation of local heritage, making history available to all.

Author : Malcolm Sterling Mackinlay
Publisher : Legare Street Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2022-10-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1016399324

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Garcia the Centenarian and His Times by Malcolm Sterling Mackinlay Pdf

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