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Golden Gate
Wednesday, December 15, 1965 College Station, Texas Page 3
Mysteriously Attracts Its Painters
EDITOR’S NOTE — Like to
work 75 stories up, painting
the Golden Gate Bridge? Sor
ry, but this is “not just any
bridge.” The painters rarely
(lit, none has ever been killed,
and there are far more appli-
tants than jobs.
SAN FRANCISCO <^)—There
is an almost mystical attraction
to the Golden Gate Bridge, at
least for the painters who climb
to fearsome heights daily to re
new its world - famed orange
glow.
“The bridge grows on you; it
becomes part of you,” says Hale
Sharrett, a husky ex-Navy man
who supervises a 40-man paint
ing crew.
The painting boss replaces his
calm, steady gaze with a look of
surprise when asked why a per
son would work at heights up to
746 feet above swirling riptides.
“Why this is the Golden Gate
Bridge you’re talking about, not
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just any bridge!” he exclaims.
This magnetism has also
drawn millions of tourists — and
286 known suicides — in the
bridge’s 28-year history.
It also thrills drivers and pas
sengers who cross the 4,200-foot
suspension bridge, says James
Adam, general manager of the
bridge. Some 345 million vehicles
have crossed the bridge since it
opened in 1937.
Another 1.5 million pedestrians
have strolled the bridge’s walk
ways, usually in couples, or fami
lies, almost always with cameras.
Only rarely will they see the
painters, who usually are specs
high up on the towers, or hidden
from view under the deck.
The painters continuously
paint its 10 million square feet
of deck, towers, supports and
cables.
The bridge, second in length
by only 50 feet to New York’s
new Verrazano Narrows Bridge,
is on its fifth complete painting.
Each paint job is done com
pletely by hand brushing, using
successive coats of red lead prim
er, intermediate brown and its
public face, international orange.
The outer color is a reddish-
orange hue that sometimes dis
mays tourists who expect a gold
en color. Orange was selected
from the start because of su
perior visibility, durability and
harmony with surrounding hills
of green and brown. The bridge’s
name was taken from the harbor
entrance, the Golden Gate.
The bridge’s appeal draws far
more applicants than can he used
in the painting crew.
“Our men have been on the
job an average of 15 years,”
Sharrett says, “so you see we
don’t have many vacancies. But
we get about two new applicants
a day.”
The supervisor, a 19-year vet-
teran who worked up from rookie
painter, says he can tell in a day
whether a new man is scared.
“I think it’s fair to say one
must have ‘iron nerves’ for this
job,” he dcelares. “We have had
would-be painters freeze on the
railing.”
Besides iron nerves, the paint
er must also have two years’
experience as a journeyman
painter and one year of painting
structural steel or bridges at con
siderable heights.
The jobs, which pay $800 a
month, are demanding mostly
because of “terrible weather —
foggy in summer and windy in
winter,” Sharrett says.
Despite painting eight hours,
five days a week — covering 1,-
200 square feet of flat surface
or 400 square feet of cables on
an average day — the men don’t
feel bored.
“It’s a long way from being a
dull job,” Sharrett asserts.
“There’s something different
every day. We’ve had wrecks,
fires, jumpers — anything can
happen on the bridge.”
“There have been several in
stances where painters have res
cued would-be suicides,” says
Sharrett’s boss, the maintenance
superintendent, R. D. Mullins.
“If the painters see the sui
cide on the railing,” Mullins said,
“maybe we can get there in time,
since the jumper usually goes
over the railing and stands on
the beams underneath, then
jumps,”
Sharrett again assumed a look
of surprise when asked what
thoughts run through his mind
at the top of a tower, 75 stories
above water, even though he is
protected by a safety belt, an
emergency net and good sense
from a plunge to certain death.
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“Nothing — you think of noth
ing up there,” he said.
If painters do think, he said,
it’s in terms of safety, not dan
ger.
“We have an excellent safety
record. Not one painter has fall
en to his death.”
A worker is automatically
fired if he isn’t wearing his safe
ty belt on the job, Sharrett said.
Large rope nets follow the men
as they work.
The nets are similar to the
type that caught and saved the
lives of 19 workmen when the
bridge was being built. Ten
workers were killed near the end
of construction, however, when
a scaffold gave way and ripped
a safety net apart. Two other
workers, not painters, died under
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similar circumstances a decade
ago.
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withstand earthquakes, a matter
of vital importance in a city that
still measures all earth temblors
by its great earthquake of 1906.
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withstand a side sway totaling
27.7 feet and an up-and-down
sway of 11.8 feet. It rode out its
most severe test, a 69-mile-per-
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up-and-down buckling of about
10 feet.
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