Alfred Zampa didn't know what he was getting into when he look a construction job in 1925 on the Carquinez Bridge, one of the first to cross San Francisco Kay. Despite the risk, Zampa relished the challenge and embarked 011 an illustrious career that made him a local legend. His impressive feats of iron craft are evident in numerous spans, including the Bay Bridge and Golden Gate, as well as others across the country. He was one of the first to survive a fall from the Golden Gate Bridge, making him a founding member of the Halfway to Hell Club in 1936. The Alfred Zampa Memorial Bridge, named to honor the man after his death, replaced the first bridge he had named on nearly eighty years earlier. This remarkable story of skill, grit is told through oral histories collected by John Robinson Isabelle Maynard. Book jacket.