Half Way to Hell Club

One of the club's earliest members was Iron Worker Al Zampa who fell into the safety nets in October 1936.

The men who fell and were saved by the nets were said to have fallen only "half way to hell.

"[2] Newspaper accounts sketch out some details and give some of the names of the 19 members who rounded out the club.

No complete list of names has been found, and only one photo is known to exist from that time of the early group.

Photographer and bridge historian John V. Robinson listed ten of the nineteen members of the Half Way to Hell club in his 2004 book Spanning the Strait as:[3] Robinson writes in his book that no one is really sure what became of the 19 men who fell into the nets.