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The "City" and Bay Area were great places to visit in the late 60s/early 70s. I miss going there and to Stinson Beach.

I wouldn't go to SF with a 10' pooper-scooper now.

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I'm originally from "Back East".

No gangplank there, just a ride to the East River or Hudson River with your "cementa shoes"

Official name with one "z"

Rockefeller signed the "Verrazano" name into law in March 1960, which officially changed the name of the Narrows Bridge to "Verrazano-Narrows Bridge".[147] The naming issue did not encounter any more controversy until 1963, after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. This prompted a series of suggestions to rename structures, monuments, and agencies across the United States after the late president.[180] A petition to rename the Verrazano Bridge for Kennedy received thousands of signatures.[181] In response, LaCorte contacted the president's brother, United States Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy, who told LaCorte that he would assure that the bridge would keep the "Verrazano" name.[182] Ultimately, the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge kept its name, while Idlewild Airport in Queens was renamed after Kennedy.[183]

In part due to discrimination against Italian-Americans, the bridge's official name was widely ignored by local news outlets at the time of the dedication. Some radio announcers and newspapers omitted any reference to Verrazzano, referring to the bridge as the Narrows Bridge, or the Brooklyn–Staten Island Bridge. The society continued its lobbying efforts to promote the name in the following years until the name became firmly established. Another ethnic slur for the bridge was its nickname as the "Guinea Gangplank", referring to the Italian-Americans who subsequently moved from Brooklyn to Staten Island.[71]: 33  The Italian Historical Society's published references to the bridge's name all contained two "z"s.[184]

Anyone else cycled across it?

I and my late wife have driven across it a dozen times or more when visiting San Francisco.

As for the suiciders, when I lived in Los Angeles, a girl whom I knew well who dated a good friend of mine but later broke up, drove to San Francisco, but parked her car away from the bridge. She walked to the bridge, walked to the railing, took off her clothes and jumped. Her purse was on top of her clothes but had no driver's license or other idee inside. There were, however, several pieces of very expensive jewelry.

The police were able to determine who she was because the jewelry was registered to her by Tiffany's and Van Cleef, Arpels. She was a stunningly beautiful girl, but as screwy as a bucket of bolts. No letter left as to why she decided to commit suicide. You never know .....

L.W.