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1937: President Franklin Delano Roosevelt pushes a button( actually a telegraph key) in Washington to signal vehicular traffic could begin crossing the Golden Gate Bridge. Today's presidents live with a whole lot more buttons to push! The toll was .50 cents; It's $6.00 now inbound. It was from 1937 to 1964, the longest suspension bridge in the world, until, the building of the 60-foot longer Verrazano Narrows Suspension Bridge in New York City. The Golden Gate Bridge is now the world's ninth longest. In any case it was a major naval exercise: In addition to a flight over the Bridge by 500 planes from Navy aircraft carriers Ranger, Lexington and Saratoga and battleships 60 miles out at sea...The arrival of the United States Fleet Fleet – 42 ships in total. Ten capital ships were lead by the USS Pennsylvania, followed by the California, West Virginia, Texas, Maryland, Nevada, Idaho, New Mexico, Mississippi, and Colorado. Heavy cruisers included the Indianapolis, Houston, Northampton, Pensacola, Salt Lake City, Louisville, Portland, Minneapolis, New Orleans, Astoria, San Francisco, Tuscaloosa, and Quincy. Light cruisers included the Concord, Cincinnati, Milwaukee, Trenton, Richmond, Memphis, and Detroit. One thing's for sure; crossing is never boring..10/9/2014's Fleet Week.