 The bridge opened on November 1, 1957, connecting two peninsulas linked for decades by ferries.A year later, the bridge was formally dedicated as the "world's longest suspension bridge between anchorages", allowing a superlative comparison to the Golden Gate Bridge, which had a longer center span between towers, and the San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge, which had an anchorage in the middle.It remains the longest suspension bridge with two towers between anchorages in the Western Hemisphere.