Matt Bevan
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It was a fantastic time for bridge builders.
It was a bunker time.
It was an incredibly good time for bridges and for iconic bridges.
And yeah, no, it's good stuff.
So they had a lot to celebrate, but they didn't know exactly where they should hold the festivities.
They came up with a very elegant.
The party's so good you'll never leave.
They came up with quite an elegant solution, which was if we're celebrating these two big bridges, let's build a man-made island in the middle of San Francisco Bay.
So this is a place.
Why would you do that?
There's Alcatraz.
Albatross Island is in the middle of San Francisco Bay.
I just said Albatross.
I know, I know.
But, you know, if you haven't seen The Rock, it's very hard to escape.
So they instead build what is now known as Treasure Island, great name, and they build a whole artificial island that's still in full use today.