1961 General Electric Ad Showing Future BART System Crossing The Golden Gate Bridge

by Scott Beale on October 27, 2009 · 1 comment

BART crosses the Golden Gate Bridge (1961)

A couple of weeks ago Burrito Justice came across a wonderful 1961 General Electric (GE) ad scanned by Eric Fisher showing a future BART system crossing the Golden Gate bridge. Here are more of Eric’s scans of San Francisco transit.

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1 Erika October 27, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Funny. That vision of the future came true at California Adventure where the Monorail crosses the Disney version of the G.G. Bridge.

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