Carquinez Bridge in The Media
- The 1927 span of the Carquinez Bridge is featured on a Season 4 episode of MythBusters in the Miniature Earthquake Machine segment. This experiment, based upon the researches of Nikola Tesla, employed a small tunable reciprocating mass driver to shake the bridge at its resonance frequency. While not structurally significant, the shaking was felt some distance from the driver.
- An hour-length program, titled Break It Down: "Bridge", documenting the demolition of the 1927 bridge aired on National Geographic Channel, on November 1, 2007
- On October 5, 2007 a man jumped off the new 156-foot (48 m) high bridge. The Coast Guard, Vallejo Police and Fire responded to find him on the breakwater. He survived the fall.
- Many San Francisco gift shops sell International Orange t-shirts featuring a mono-chromatic picture of the new Carquinez suspension span ostensibly as the Golden Gate Bridge, the use of whose image would be subject to royalties.
- Three books have been published about the Carquinez Bridges:Spanning the Carquinez Strait: The Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge (2003) Cal-Trans, Spanning the Strait: Building the Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge (2004) by John V. Robinson, and Al Zampa and the Bay Area Bridges (2005) by John V. Robinson.
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