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Great article, but the following line irked me a bit. > played by Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge, the only non-iconic bridge on this list. Vancouvers still the

Great article, but the following line irked me a bit. > played by Vancouver’s Lions Gate Bridge, the only non-iconic bridge on this list. Vancouvers still the 3rd largest city in Canada and I think most Canadians would consider Lions Gate to be ionic in its own right. It's certainly a stunning location spanning across the Burrard Inlet into Stanley Park. Anyways, it's not important enough to worry too much about.

mikeash 11y ago
The other bridges discussed are iconic throughout the world. Merely being iconic to most Canadians is not really in the same league.
- dbshapco 11y ago
  Vancouver spends too much time in movies masquerading as an American city to ever be iconic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_filming_locations_in_the_Vancouver_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_filming_locations_in_t... With the current exchange rate we'll have another wave of movies pretending Canadian cities are American cities. Shame, because aside from real estate prices, Vancouver is a jewel.
  - e2e8 11y ago
    Nice video on the topic: https://vimeo.com/138807572 https://vimeo.com/138807572
- Symbiote 11y ago
  > The other bridges discussed are iconic throughout the world. I don't think they are. The only iconic North American bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge — this is widely recognised. Worldwide, I'd add Tower Bridge [1], but I'm struggling to think of another bridge that is so widely known that it's instantly recognizable by a significant number of people. [1] If you don't the name and don't recognise it, then I'm probably wrong: http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Tower-Bridge-at-night-2.jpg http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Tower-Bridg...
  - distances 11y ago
    Indeed, for me not being either from US or UK, Golden Gate and Tower Bridge are the only two iconic bridges I can think of. These I would recognize both by name and shape, anything else would probably be half a guess.
  - locopati 11y ago
    Perhaps the Brooklyn Bridge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge
    - Symbiote 11y ago
      If shown a picture yesterday, I wouldn't have been able to name it. I think I would have known it was in New York, but when I visited it wasn't one of the sights — unlike Tower Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. (Perhaps I don't watch enough American TV shows; it's the kind of thing that would be in the intro-credits showing the setting is NYC.) I think it's like the Forth Bridge near Edinburgh or Charles Bridge in Prague. They're extremely well known nationally, and may well be tourist attractions, but would most people know about them before visiting the area?

mikeash 11y ago

The other bridges discussed are iconic throughout the world. Merely being iconic to most Canadians is not really in the same league.

dbshapco 11y ago
Vancouver spends too much time in movies masquerading as an American city to ever be iconic. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_filming_locations_in_the_Vancouver_area https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_filming_locations_in_t... With the current exchange rate we'll have another wave of movies pretending Canadian cities are American cities. Shame, because aside from real estate prices, Vancouver is a jewel.
- e2e8 11y ago
  Nice video on the topic: https://vimeo.com/138807572 https://vimeo.com/138807572
Symbiote 11y ago
> The other bridges discussed are iconic throughout the world. I don't think they are. The only iconic North American bridge is the Golden Gate Bridge — this is widely recognised. Worldwide, I'd add Tower Bridge [1], but I'm struggling to think of another bridge that is so widely known that it's instantly recognizable by a significant number of people. [1] If you don't the name and don't recognise it, then I'm probably wrong: http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Tower-Bridge-at-night-2.jpg http://cdn.rsvlts.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/Tower-Bridg...
- distances 11y ago
  Indeed, for me not being either from US or UK, Golden Gate and Tower Bridge are the only two iconic bridges I can think of. These I would recognize both by name and shape, anything else would probably be half a guess.
- locopati 11y ago
  Perhaps the Brooklyn Bridge? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brooklyn_Bridge
  - Symbiote 11y ago
    If shown a picture yesterday, I wouldn't have been able to name it. I think I would have known it was in New York, but when I visited it wasn't one of the sights — unlike Tower Bridge and the Golden Gate Bridge. (Perhaps I don't watch enough American TV shows; it's the kind of thing that would be in the intro-credits showing the setting is NYC.) I think it's like the Forth Bridge near Edinburgh or Charles Bridge in Prague. They're extremely well known nationally, and may well be tourist attractions, but would most people know about them before visiting the area?