Preparations for recommission of USS Midway (CV-41) in San Francisco. Sign board reads "USS Midway CVA-41 Modernization. San Francisco Bay Naval Shipyard's Greatest Challenge. Scheduled completion June 1970." Workers and heavy equipment in use near the ship. View of USS Midway at port. Large rail crane in the background.
A 1970 television program hosted by Lee Marvin regarding construction of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco beginning in 1933 and completing in 1937. View of the Verrazzano Narrows Bridge in New York, and the Royal Gorge Bridge in Colorado. View of the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco built by Joseph Strauss. Newspaper headlines during debate about whether to construct the bridge, such as 'Jobs Loom' and 'Span for Vote', and "The Golden Gate is One of Nature's Perfect Pictures -- Let's Not Disfigure It". View of the north and south tower of the Golden Gate Bridge. Boat passes under the bridge during its construction. Stages of Golden Gate Bridge under construction and discussion on the difficulties of setting the towers in the bed of the bay. A blimp passes over the bridge. Engineers work under bad weather conditions. Two men walk on cables connecting the bridge towers. Walter Cathey, construction supervisor, talks about the difficulties during construction and an incident where two bridge builders died during construction. Seagulls on shore. Painting of the bridge using the color known as International Orange. Boat in San Francisco Bay passes under the bridge. Opening ceremonies for the Golden Gate Bridge in May 1937 and traffic crossing the bridge for the first time.
Vocal group the 5th Dimension sing and dance aboard a boat in San Francisco Bay, San Francisco, California. The boat passes under the Golden Gate Bridge. Vehicles drive on the bridge. Band members sing and dance.
Decommission ceremony aboard USS Midway CVB-41 in San Francisco. View of stage with chairs and rostrum. Officers W B Mack, Fredrick Kivette, Roy M Isaan, Allen M Shinn, Captain Eugene J Carroll, Norbert Frankenberger, Leo B McCuddin, Captain Leroy E Harris and Captain E Jacobsen. Officers give invocation. Officers and guests rise for presentation of colors. Officers salute during honors.
Musician plays a hurdy-gurdy, a medieval stringed musical instrument, near the Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco. Lynn Elder assembles body of a hurdy-gurdy. Lynn Elder bends wood for a dulcimer. A female student assembles a wooden body of a dulcimer. Student traces wood with pencil. Craftsman teaches a student how to carve wood. View of a rebec. Student carves wood to make instrument. A student tests a dulcimers sound using quill. Musicians play medieval instruments. “Magic Mountain Workshop 1968” sign. Lynn Elder drills a hole into wood and applies glue to a dulcimer. He puts metal string on dulcimer. A musician plays a medieval instrument. Various medieval instruments on display as Lynn Elder plays a hurdy-gurdy.