Grandview Commerce High School - Annual Yearbook (Vancouver, British Columbia Canada)

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COMMERCE ANNUAL the erection progresses, and then taken down. ln each tower there are approxi- mately 45,000 rivets. Sixty-one individual wire ropes, li inches in diameter, and 5,500 feet in length, extending from the North to South anchorage, make up the two main cab- les. These ropes, ISE inches in diameter, are being made in Montreal, where they are pre-stressed to get the absolute accurate checking of each piece of wire for physical accuracy, wound on reels, and shipped here, Fifty-seven million feet or 9,000 miles of cable will be usedg this sum equalling the length of about three times the distance fom here to Halifax. The cables will terminate in the anchors in two sets of 7 steel discs, four inches thickg each of the discs being 50 inches in diameter. The maximum pull on one of these cables is 8,000 tons, or equal to the pull of 6,000 teams of horses reaching from Vancouver to New Westminster. But to break the cables it would require 36, 008 Tforses pulling on each one, The bridge will be lighted by sodium vapor lamps and th-ere will also be beacons erected on each tower to mark them at night for safety in air trans- portation. When the Lions' Gate Bridge is completed, steel towers will rise to a height of 360 feet. A i500 foot span of steel will cross Burrard Inlet at a height of more than 200 feet above the water level. Nature decreed that North and West Vancouver must be separated forever from Vancouver City by a gap of water, but man's skill and knowledge has bridged that gap with a triumplaal mass of steel and concrete-The Lions' Gate Bridge. Miriam Pohjola. -...LQ-.4-Q-.-.... A GLIMPSE OF HOLLYWOOD Who has not longed to see some of Hollywood's stars, or, equally as excit- ing, a movie set? Had you been to Mount Baker thc middle of last summer, your longing would certainly have been satisfied. Here they were 'shooting' The Barrier. On first glance, the scenery seemed natural enoughg a huge lodge, a church, log cabins, and a primitive grave-yard. On closer observation, however, you would find that the log cabins were built out of ordinary boards cleverly touched up by Hollywood painters. The lodge, church, and grave-yard were merely temp-

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