The story of Hoover Dam

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ARC Identifier 37058 / Local Identifier 115.31. Explains the overwhelming need to control and regulate the raging waters of the Colorado River; the 1928 passage of the Boulder Canyon Project authorizing construction of the Hoover Dam; the ensuing construction of diversion tunnels and then the dam itself; building of support facilities, such as a steel fabrication plant for giant pipe construction; and creation of hydroelectric operations that provided electricity to California, Nevada, and Arizona. Also details how Lake Mead evolved into a successful recreational area as a result of the dam construction. Department of the Interior. Bureau of Reclamation. (06/20/1923 - 11/06/1979)

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@machone7580 4 года назад

I went and seen the dam about 6 months ago. Worth the trip!! Good thing they built it back when. Tree huggers would never let this be built today, and if we could build it, it would be way over budget and take forever.

@CorruptedGov 12 лет назад

America should be spending money on these kind of projects not war, thus creating clean energy, and jobs

@wcstevens7 3 года назад

yo daddy ..Never a truer statement has ever been made !!!

@carlfrye1566 3 года назад

Well, Trump is bringing troops home from overseas, and getting us out of wars. Plus bringing back manufacturing jobs. Plus trying to get NATO to pay their bills, which other Presidents let ride.

@whereswaldo5740 2 года назад

The communists on every level are watermelons. Green on the outside and red on the inside. You have man made droughts in the southwest diverting precious water to the Pacific. Thanks Obummer fir nothing. Supposedly saving the pacific smelt or something like that. And it’s not even endangered. They can’t allow America to be great. They can’t bring the rest of the world up. So they tear us down.

@kinte1870 2 года назад

Let's go to space and mine minerals.

@dixon33mj 2 года назад

@@carlfrye1566 and let a bunch of shitbags into the capitol eh Carl?

@stephaniepersin4145 9 лет назад

This film gives me flashbacks to the time we had film projectors in the classrooms. The time line of all of them were the 1950s, early 60s.

@oldnick4707 4 года назад

Me too! Back in the seventies, in school, we would look forward weekly to these! We called them "film strips", of course! :D Our school system had a great many old ones like this that were cycled through our many schools! :)

@maryvalentine9090 Месяц назад

has that distinctive sound and style of every informational 16 mm film we had to watch in elementary and high school through the 60s and 70s. They were so formulaic, the tone was very distinctive in this style of educational filmmaking. I always felt like I was being talked down to as a kid.

@balharithfahad 12 лет назад

Miracle to build such gigantic dam in the thirties, I like it, so innovative

@brentsarazin4346 2 года назад

If you haven't watched any videos of the construction of the Empire State Building, at exactly the same time in the early 1930's, DO IT! Amazing engineering marvel, as well.

@michaelw5186 10 лет назад

What a great, educational video on American exceptionalism.

@daveowens2538 9 лет назад

Where is your exceptionalism now?

@michaelw5186 9 лет назад

Dave Owens What exactly are you asking?

@oldnick4707 4 года назад

@@daveowens2538, Are you really trolling for the list!? :D

@seanclason6350 3 года назад

Nobody asked

@raymondwelsh6028 2 года назад

Little mention in this promo film about the human cost. Using internal combustion engines in the diversion tunnels and when workers were dropping like flies, management washed there hands of them. Blaming them for getting pneumonia, no such thing as workers compensation. Not to mention people falling from great heights, then throwing a bag over the till the bony was removed, got to keep working so Mr Crow could get his 3 million bonus.🇦🇺

@ragingbull154 4 года назад

I visited the Hoover Dam when I was 10 years old back in 1982. My parents, my brother and I took a road trip to visit relatives in California and we went to the Hoover Dam when were out there. Long trip......we live in North Carolina. Marshville, North Carolina to Barstow, California in August 1982. Two and 1/2 days on the road. Hoover Dam was amazing thing to see.

@1wide9111 4 года назад

Same story here.

@christopherrippel2463 3 года назад

In 1983, it was the only time the dam was full capacity. I would like to see your pictures of it in 1982.

@user-ty6do8yz4l 3 года назад

Funny, 82 is when I moved to Charlotte, I was 12. South Blvd

@TheBandit7613 3 года назад

@@christopherrippel2463 You are full of shit. It was the only time the dam was overfull and was close to collapse. From the LA Times. "The level of the reservoir peaked at 3,708.34 feet on July 15, six-hundredths of a foot below the point where officials feared they’d lose control" Making stuff up is fun!

@TheBandit7613 3 года назад

@@christopherrippel2463 LA Times article. webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:eejuPqg5XuwJ:www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1995-10-29-tm-62672-story.html&hl=en&gl=us&strip=1&vwsrc=0

@Seph1906 13 лет назад

THIS VIDEO HAS SO MUCH INFORMATION!!!* *in a good way

@avriljenifersexton912 Год назад

Absolutely beautiful story about the Hoover Dam and how it was constructed and all the hard work that went into it more especially in the unbearable heat too

@allandavis8201 4 года назад

When you consider that the dam was constructed in the 30s it’s incredible the quality and intricate engineering was achieved, even in our modern technological advanced world it’s a feat that is rarely equaled.

@allandavis8201 4 года назад

Moon Watcher, yes, America seem to have cornered the market in dam building, got it down to a fine art. 😀👍🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@andybilakshow260 2 года назад

The engineer was a genius. His design is just a shade shy from perfect.

@billysnipesmarketing9565 Год назад

@@andybilakshow260 Led Zeppelin? He's Cool:))

@daleburrell6273 Год назад

@@andybilakshow260 ...YOU SUMMED IT UP PERFECTLY-!!!

@andybilakshow260 Год назад

@@daleburrell6273 True visionaries no?

@peggyuriz2336 4 года назад

Grew up 79 miles from the dam. Went on the dam tour 3-4 times. I never get tired of watching this kind of thing or seeing pictures Amazing work!!

@curtiscampbell4554 4 года назад

It would take our workforce today 40 years to build this .

@thethirdman225 Год назад

@@curtiscampbell4554 The project till took 30 years. A modern construction company would use a tenth of the number of (casual, non-union) workers to save money and bolster their superannuation packages through long term contracts. At the start of the project there were around 5,000 workers employed by six construction companies. Today there would never be more than 500. At least 96 workers died building it, in many cases because of poor safety standards.

@TheDylanJoyce 12 лет назад

"Dam" that's huge!

@bartdereu 10 лет назад

I've seen it this februari. It's a very impressive engineering masterpiece.

@brentsarazin4346 2 года назад

I just LOVE these kind of stories that involve Engineering as I stepped into the engineering field many years ago now. The shear size and volumes of steel, concrete, and manpower to build this dam left me speechless. Bravo America and praise God for the strength and wisdom to harness the gifts he entrusted us with to better mankind and our Planet.

@marilynbocanegra4960 2 года назад

Thank you very much Brings back alot of memories in school

@ssweeps 3 года назад

Really good. Thank you for posting.

@supra4mn 13 лет назад

AMAZING !

@tracer740 12 лет назад

Phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal!

@CASH-TO-THE-MERE101 4 года назад

Liche Christ 👌

@johnshields6852 Год назад

It's a great manmade structure, great video of how this huge project was done. Thank you

@gulfwinds94 11 лет назад

Truly amazing.

@solosneros 12 лет назад

THANK YOU! The video helped me at my Power Point Presentation! thx from Germany!

@darrinmcneill534 5 месяцев назад

Fantastic film thanks so much

@joemacinnis1972 4 года назад

An absolute marvel of human possibilities

@MusaMusa-sw4ek 2 года назад

Thanks Sir ,I appreciate your work.

@anthonywilliamson7323 3 года назад

A modern day masterpiece of engineering.

@brentsarazin4346 2 года назад

Funny when you say modern when the World now sits in the year 2022 but you are correct.

@Bewification 12 лет назад

@PublicResourceOrg ... absolute engineering marvel. theoretically, its not that hard to lay a big slab of concrete. but it's so much more than that. the power houses and tunnels. are impressive on their own. 1930's too. thank you for this video. Long Live Hoover Dam.

@SuperScottschannel 4 года назад

An unbelievable accomplishment. So many people working together to create a masterpiece.

@rocketdaddy35 2 года назад

I'm not sure if you could even get enough people in the US to work this hard anymore. That's all I could think about seeing all the manual labor going into that massive project, 24/7 in ALL weather-- try getting workers to do that now. What an accomplishment though!

@UnionKid15 13 лет назад

thx a lot for posting this.

@videoluvr4204 13 лет назад

great video i watched the whole thing

@OneSkiWonder 13 лет назад

Thank you so much for posting this! This video has amazing amounts of history and a wealth of information about the dam and other dams. :D

@hhani172 3 года назад

This is the greatest channel I have found on RU-vid in the last months !!! Wonderful work, full of atmosphere … Thanks

@brentsarazin4346 2 года назад

I agree with you. They way the information, pictures, and even the commenter take you into the work boots of this video and others as well.

@stinkybritches8174 Год назад

You’re very welcome, fam.

@Savatage1964 4 года назад

Very good documentary!

@magicalrobster 8 лет назад

what an achievement! so impressive

@CASH-TO-THE-MERE101 4 года назад

magicalrobster 👍

@MoneyRay619858 Год назад

This was a great video to watch

@JuukezeBarbie 12 лет назад

what an enormous and great piece of American history...

@allirocksyoursocks74 11 лет назад

wow great documentary

@MichiganQuadTrailsTales 4 года назад

Great Video! Done Early...and Under Budget!bet that was the last thing built on time, and under budget! Went through it back in 2011, very cool!

@kennyburns8511 4 года назад

Took longer to build a bridge over it

@thethirdman225 Год назад

Taking full advantage of unemployment during the Great Depression…

@Abdikarimelmi 12 лет назад

It's part of FDR New Deal package. It served under Rural Authority act. It helped electrify villages and create revenue from Public works.

@neilfurby555 2 года назад

Wonderful...and no music overwhelming the pretty excellent commentary.

@ImmortalDragon 13 лет назад

Outstanding..

@DawnInTexas 9 лет назад

We used to stop and watch this at the Gold Strike Inn on our way to the Dam! I just found out it has burned down and replaced by the Hoover Dam Lodge. Looking at their website, it doesn't look like they show the movie. I am glad it is here on youtube!

@-oiiio-3993 2 года назад

I'd bet the former staff of the inn could recite this film's dialogue verbatim.

@selvagemlatino7050 4 года назад

Em 2009 nem sabia que existia esse vídeo. Gostei. Imagens antigas.

@alisaleh1000 12 лет назад

thats amazing

@gordoelkis 2 года назад

Just visited yesterday,what an american wonder incredible when you go there and see it.

@mwak7 11 лет назад

yea really much thanks to hoover posted this video

@erichaskell 4 года назад

Most people do not know that the river below the dam is now cold supporting fish such as trout, above all the dam the water is warmer.

@darrinmcneill534 5 месяцев назад

For the persons who had the vision for the dam where simply awesom people

@ArnesPerama 2 года назад

Terimakasih telah berbagi informasi.. salam dari Indonesia 2022.

@arctroopersvm346 3 года назад

This is great footage considering how old it is.

@joelee662 4 года назад

Unbelievable what they did back then with little technology that they had. Those guys worked hard and I'll bet you they didn't make that much money per week they risked their life and today I bet you a McDonald's worker made more money per week then them. A great video thank you 👍🇺🇸

@liberalssuck3155 4 года назад

That's a understatement. Alot of people today think they are owed something.they didnt make much building it.

@knighttuttruptuttrup8518 2 года назад

I've been here a few times, very impressive. There's a lot of historical photos and information in the casino just up the road from the dam. Check it out!

@actionjessie 9 лет назад

This is why I chose civil engineering. Its awesome. Dont care bout the elitist mechanical and electrical engineers that call it the 'dumb' engineering.

@actionjessie 8 лет назад

+Troy Greyham depends what company you work for. where I live only beginner civil engineers would get 60k, those working in geotech and oil and gas easily earn of 100k.looks like the market is going to change though as we start to move away fossil fuels. the opportunity to work out on site and travel is great, otherwise I would have lived to do aerospace engineering, but sadly not much industry here in Australia

@CASH-TO-THE-MERE101 4 года назад

actionjessie 😭

@liberalssuck3155 4 года назад

Its kind of funny you think of mechanical like that 😂

@brentsarazin4346 2 года назад

Never heard that term before. I high 5 you fellow civil engineer. We ROCK!

@thethirdman225 Год назад

@@actionjessie My Dad was a civil engineer. Wish I could have shown this to him.😕 I wanted to study aeronautical engineering (now called aerospace engineering, of course but I’m old). Maths was never my best subject but I could just about manage it. Of course, this was when everyone transitioned to computers anyway, something my Dad was a trailblazer in. Greetings also from Oz.🙂

@selvagemlatino7050 4 года назад

Assistindo primeira vez este vídeo em 24marco202020h53min.terca🇧🇷. Nunca vi antes. Este canal é novo para mim.

@mimih22a 3 года назад

Can they make a movie of this whole thing like being constructed it would be amazing seeing it in great detail with cgi

@hlar8605 9 лет назад

Ave, true to Caesar!

@boone4531 5 лет назад

Your sticks are no match to ncr weaponry....and house securitrons. Well shit courier choose the house ending.

@dhtango 2 года назад

unbelievable! amazing construction feat!! same as the pyramids.

@vickydiaz1596 7 лет назад

I love my city of Las Vegas!. just as much as I love Chicago, the city that saw me grow.

@GMTX-kg8ep 3 года назад

What company made the locomotive at 17:34 and who was owning it at the time of the project?

@williamhaynes7089 2 года назад

The tour now is shortened so you can go to most of the places in this video that you see the tourist visit

@dixiemay1996 2 года назад

@21:29 It clearly shows the "bath tub" forming along the sides of Lake Mead. 1st thought then should have been about future problems.

@MrShobar 4 года назад

The "Six Companies, Inc." joint venture consisted of the following partners: 1. Henry J. Kaiser Co. of Oakland, California and Bechtel Corporation of San Francisco (Bechtel-Kaiser); 2. MacDonald and Kahn of Los Angeles, California; 3. Utah Construction Company of Ogden, Utah; 4. Morrison-Knudsen of Boise, Idaho; 5. Pacific Bridge Company of Portland, Oregon; and 6. J.F. Shea Co of Portland, Oregon.

@mein214 Год назад

Do you know if this companies are still in business?

@ar-15techtipsinunder5minut8 Год назад

Never could be done in this day and age of DE&I.

@sandip0sheta 10 лет назад

nice

@christopherdibble5872 Год назад

All of the snow that has fallen in these tragic snow storms when melted would not fill lake mead, it took the Colorado River SEVEN years to fill it.

@hamaljay Год назад

This is a good damn movie.

@Eparabola 11 лет назад

You got that right.

@selvagemlatino7050 4 года назад

24marco2020,terça-feira, 21h.🇧🇷. Nunca postei nada antes pois nunca acessei o canal antes. Mas o assunto é muito bom. Obras públicas. Isso me interessa. O canal apareceu de repente no meu tour tube. Nunca vi antes.

@jrdeckard3317 2 года назад

The Detroit Tigers paid Miguel Cabrera as much as it cost to build the Hoover Dam. Today, the dam is running out of water and electrical generation capacity, and Cabrera's batting average is under .200.

@paco3343 2 года назад

I marvel at the talent and knowledge our glorious God has given to the individuals involved in the Hoover Dam's construction and implementation from President Hoover to Arhur Powell Davis and the Bureau Service, the architects, engineers, construction workers, and managers. What a blessing to agriculture and industry in these United States!

@NinjasUseGlocks 9 лет назад

Ave, true to Caesar

@skorpyonayts1169 13 лет назад

Respond to this video...thank you for sharing.

@Jrsc5ive 11 лет назад

@Greg Rassam , About that debt part... This was built during the great depression.

@hablerz 11 лет назад

True but people need electricity. Its essential for modern life. Civilisation needs water in the right places as well of there simply wouldn't be enough food to go round.

@selvagemlatino7050 4 года назад

Duvido que esse canal esteja com datas certas. Muito raro aparecer postagem de antes de 2012.

@HavinSumKindaFun 12 лет назад

funny they didn't put that in the documentary... thanks

@FetchTheSled 12 лет назад

on Lake Mead there is. big steelhead, mucho carpo

@cobydog456 11 лет назад

How did you get this video?

@skorpyonayts1169 13 лет назад

@agile16mm wow.

@Shine.-_-.Bright3 2 года назад

Yet today in 2021 the amount of water in the dam would shock the generation that helped create this.

@jeffadams4590 3 года назад

How many bags of quickcrete in this dam? At least a couple pallets right?

@agile16mm 13 лет назад

@TrustowrthyRapist The film had a lot of dust spots on it, and they were not removed before it was transfered to video. Running the film through some particle trasnfer rollers would have removed the spots.

@-oiiio-3993 2 года назад

Then it wouldn't look as if it's being shown at an elementary school assembly.

@thethirdman225 Год назад

Who is going to pay for that?

@kingkong1040 2 года назад

Why is there no footage of the lake mead valley and river before the lake?

@mattywho8485 4 года назад

Why is the woman fishing @22:16 wearing a lampshade on her head ???

@johncmoore416 3 года назад

When was the last time there was enough water to fill the thing high enough to use the spill way?

@sogoofyahh 3 года назад

1983

@williamhaynes7089 2 года назад

@@sogoofyahh - 1999 after 1983...

@Dandelions 12 лет назад

@jared4wally hoover dam is not only fallout, hoover dam is real

@billmatrisch4129 4 года назад

If you've never seen Hoover Dam you need to go see this engineering marvel. Think about it, it's thicker at the bottom then it is tall. And it's 535' tall.

@davidstinson5095 4 года назад

Taller than that he 700 plus in the air high

@davidstinson5095 4 года назад

721 feet tall buddy

@PlaneReality Год назад

2 and 1/2 years ahead of schedule... with skill and precision like nothing that could be done today. Nearly 100 years later... have we improved... or backsliding.

@jdlamb4212 Год назад

It was definitely amazing but there's no doubt we've made huge advancements since then. We build things today that would seem like alien technology to them. Precision on a microscopic level. Probes on other planets and outside our solar system. Even just 10 years after this our technology was incredibly advanced in comparison.

@vadimssipolnieks2103 Год назад

Have question anybody know place in usa today where they build same equipment .

@111vnderbnder111 11 лет назад

This is a dam good video ;)

@markroberts9577 4 года назад

So it took the government what 12 years to get something started. But once it was started they kicked ass! Does America have any more major projects like this left in her?

@agile16mm 14 лет назад

It is a shame that the film was not cleaned beofre it was transfered to video. Do the folks who keep these videos at the archive not clean them before they are transfered?

@-oiiio-3993 2 года назад

Then it wouldn't look as it did being shown at elementary school assemblies.