People, standing or walking on the bridge, were engulfed in fog causing them to totally or partly vanish.

The bridge generated its own fog, no matter how clear and sunny the day. Most of the fog rose to engulf the bridge, while some of the fog settled down onto the bay water.

The exhibit was credited using a modest sign, attached to a steel rail, that read, "Fog Bridge by Fujiko Nakaya."

The fog was generated by forcing water out through microscopic jets. The microscopic water particles behaved like fog.

A woman walked across the bridge and was about to vanish into an artificial bank of fog.

A view from the bridge, wherein the fog fled over the bay water and slowly evaporated.

A sign near the bridge described how it was created: "A microscopic pin in each nozzle atomizes the water into billions of ultra-fine fog droplets."

Another sign showed the schedule for the bridge:

Fog Bridge is active:
• Daily at 10:00 a.m., noon, 2:00 and 4:00 p.m.
• Thursday Evenings at 7:00 p.m.
Fog Bridge uses desalinated water from the Bay.

The Fog Bridge created a drama that harkened back to San Francisco's pre-industrial days, when a sea fog would engulf the entire city in a pea-soup thick fog.