SAN FRANCISCO (KGO) -- Caltrans has completed the implosion of a pier of the old eastern span of the Bay Bridge at 7:17 a.m. Saturday. The implosion was a highly-choreographed but short six-second ...

John Antczak clutched a single red rose and peered over the steel edge of the Bay Bridge's old eastern span to the water below. His eyes brimmed with tears. Advertisement Article continues below this ...

A piece of Bay Area history was blown to bits Saturday morning. Pier E3 — the largest remaining pier of the old eastern span of the San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge — was leveled at 7:17 a.m.

There’s a surreal serenity atop the world’s longest self-anchored, single-tower suspension bridge, crowned by a thick blanket of fog more than 500 feet above the rippling tides off Yerba Buena ...