Salt Lake Telegram | 1937-02-16 | Page 10 | Bridge Alters Million Lives

BRIDGE ALTERS MILUOILLIVES BAN FRANCISCO (INS) The ew Baa Francisco-Oakland bay bridg has changed the living habits of tb nUr Saa Francisco bsy region, comprising six cities with an aggregate population of more than a million persons. Not only baa the spaa physically connected th populous sast bay territory, and tb northern coun-ts coun-ts behind it, with metropolitan Sin Francisco; It has, la Us first :' -ce months of existence, visibly mdified th social, cultural and - n-mlo. lives of the people it - ve. jr example, thousands of Oak- 'd snd Berkeley resldsnts, who ve lived la cities where the "curfew" "cur-few" sounds st midnight, now are participating in the gay, sophisticated sophisti-cated Bight life of their neighbor city, the "Paris of America." Night Spot Gain Visitors from the region San Francisco has nebulously referred to as "th sticks,'' and "the cow country," ar now swarming th smart hotels, and swelling the receipts re-ceipts of this city's night spots nd bars. So marked has been this lncrtas In Bight trad that the proprietors f such places ar petitioning the city govcrnmant to remain open for business until a. m Instead of the closing hour of 1 o'clock. Fifteen hundred commuters from th east bay, who drive to and from work la Saa Francisco every day, find they can sleep aa extra half hour these mornings. They soora across the bridge three times as fast as the ferry boats ply the bay. Housewives from "across the water" wa-ter" now are able to avail themselves them-selves of the opportunity to attend ' th countless cultural ahowa of San Francisco, always famous for Its consciousness of th arts and sciences. sci-ences. Art museums, musical recitals. Bterary reviews, public exhibits and symphonies all record aa Increase In attendance this winter, attributable, attribut-able, the sponsors believe, to the bay bridge. Visit Inoreas ' Whereas people In the bag region, aa long aa anyone caa remember, hav alwaya counted a full day consumed If they undertook a visit to friends or events on the opposits aide of the bay, they bow make the round trip crossing easily, without beginning the "trip" mntil after dinner. din-ner. This has resulted, naturally. In th renewal of countless aid frlsnd-ahip frlsnd-ahip between transbay acquaintances acquaint-ances who, until last November, hav felt Isolated from one another.