My Grandfather (Robert DiLullo) took the first steam shovel bucket from the diversion dam that started the project. He worked throughout the project. Later became the first roads commissioner of Shasta County. Even later became the Shasta Fairgrounds manager before retiring.
Wonderfully constructed video. Missing is deconstruction of Head Tower to the level it is now days. Remarkable to see the lack of vegetation due to copper from mining. Area sure 'greened up' over the years. And the visitors center and park came to be later. All those men had something to be so proud of. It took some ingenuitive minds and mighty muscles!! And truly its like a living thing when you stand on Shasta Dam when the drums are all open and you feel the moisture in the air, feel the vibration of the water rushing thru and below, and hear the thunderous sounds of it all.
Awesome video. My grandfather used to go to the Pitt River when he was in the Boy Scouts before the dam was built. I have spent every summer of my life on that lake and love the history.
I don't know where you found this, but I couldn't stop watching this. OK I was looking for my Dad, He was one of the workers there. He also worked on the Oroville lake dam. This is a cool old video.
@JohnnyD RC it's amazing what this generation was able to pull off. I wonder how many of the tools, carts and other items used for this project were invented just for this job. In one scene the dump truck didn't even have a cab on it. Contrast that to today's monster machines that have AC and heat. Another facet of this project is they built it while WWII was raging on. I wonder if the nearby residents, if there were any, thought the Germans were attacking every time dynamite was used?
@@doobielawson702 I have no idea how they did it, I did have home videos on Oroville Dam being built, when my dad worked on that Dam. But was lost after he past away.
Very interesting, especially the head tower and tail towers that allowed quick handling of the concrete. I saw the dam years ago but had no idea about the head tower until the current drought exposed its base.
My grandfather's brother worked concrete on the dam. For at least the 60's, 70's and 80's from my own knowledge, he lived about a half mile south of the dam on Lake Blvd.
Should have a Narrator telling us about this Marvel. Ya' kno some old guy with a twang in his voice, so he sounds like he was telling the story back in the day.....🤣🤣🤠💛👍
We do not. They are property of the Redding Chamber of Commerce, however, we did look into re-formatting them but the cost is prohibitive and there is only one source to digitize that particular file size and not locally.
From the Great Northwest public Duck Blind yes my grandparents came to a Redding California to build the dam my grandfather Jay Lewis Presley Butch Knox Presley his brother both worked on the I-5 bridge and the Dam have lots of memories of the area sad to see it was on fire and that the lake is low okay from the Great Northwest God bless
@@robbiem4624 Can you blame them? Machines dont complain, call in sick, file frivolous lawsuits, get tired, stay home and collect government handouts, etc etc etc ...
