specificply designed casons were lowered to the floor of the bay. credibling would take place through the holotubes until they reached bedrock of the this was not the most dangerous. once the foundations were laid, then work could begin on the towers. men would now be working hundreds of feet above the water, but they seemed oblivious to the dangerous and, in fact, many seemed to thrive ton. al was known known was the king of the high steel in his bridge- boyding days and now 82, he recalls the only doubt he had work on the bay bridge is that it might fall down. >> i worked on a lot of bridges and a lot of others burb nothing like this. this was new to me. >> reporter: what made it different? >> well, the thrill, and just the guts to go up there and do it and all the thrills and every minute you think the whole thing is gone. i used to look across and all the way to the cable and see 28 and 7/8th diameter and i hope those engineers are right. [ laughter ] >> reporter: the engineers were right. for 50 years the bay bridge has been the workhorse of ba