Hoover Dam | Wikireadia #113

Hoover Dam | Wikireadia #113

I was living in Las Vegas in 1995, and had many occasions to interact with the Hoover Dam. I've met friends there. I've taken girlfriends there. I took the guided extended tour at a time when they showed you everyhting. (And you really haven't seen anything until you've seen an electric-generating turbine the size of a small building set in a terazzo floor -- times seventeen). In my last days in Vegas before heading back East, I had to run a load of my wordly posessions over to Flagstaff to put them on a freight train headed to Pittsburgh -- and that trip from Nevada to Arizona took me straight across the top of the Hoover Dam (and back, the same day). Bear in mind, the route across the top of the Hoover Dam wasn't a choice. That was where the road from Vegas to Flagstaff just ran.

Anyway, the Hoover Dam. The original writeup can be found at: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoover_Dam

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