"There was a lot of fear back then, after that earthquake,"
"getting a little bit of the spirit back,"
"If it would have went on for a few more seconds, we would have lost the entire eastern span of the bridge,"
Curiosity about standing on the Bay Bridge prompted a rare legal pedestrian event after the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake. A 250-ton segment of the upper deck collapsed onto the lower deck on Oct. 17, killing a 23-year-old nurse's aid, Anamafi Moala. For one month the bridge was closed while ironworkers and engineers repaired the damage. In mid-November about 13,000 Bay Area residents walked across the upper deck east of Yerba Buena Island; Gov. George Deukmejian joined one of the groups. Tickets cost $5 plus a $1 service fee. Concrete was still curing and railings were not yet installed, so walkers stopped short where safeguards were absent.
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