The story of Hoover Dam

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)

[@CorruptedGov]

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

[@wcstevens7]

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

[@carlfrye1566]

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]

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]

Let's go to space and mine minerals.

[@dixon33mj]

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

[@briankoch3856]

My father Darwin H. Koch was General Manager of the Allis Chalmers Power Generation Department in our hometown of West Allis Wisconsin. He Supervised the installation of all Allis Chalmers Power Turbine Generators at the Hoover Dam. He later was hired my Siemans AG to manage the Allis Chalmers Turbine and Power Generation departments.

[@peggyuriz2336]

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]

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

[@thethirdman225]

@@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.

[@ragingbull154]

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]

Same story here.

[@christopherrippel2463]

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

[@3373-g8z]

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

[@TheBandit7613]

@@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]

@@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

[@stephaniepersin4145]

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]

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! :)

[@balharithfahad]

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

[@brentsarazin4346]

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]

What a great, educational video on American exceptionalism.

[@daveowens2538]

Where is your exceptionalism now?

[@michaelw5186]

Dave Owens What exactly are you asking?

[@oldnick4707]

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

[@seanclason6350]

Nobody asked

[@raymondwelsh6028]

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.🇦🇺

[@avriljenifersexton912]

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

[@Seph1906]

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

[@paco3343]

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!

[@anthonywilliamson7323]

A modern day masterpiece of engineering.

[@brentsarazin4346]

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

[@allandavis8201]

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]

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

[@andybilakshow260]

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

[@billysnipesmarketing9565]

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

[@daleburrell6273]

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

[@andybilakshow260]

@@daleburrell6273 True visionaries no?

[@brentsarazin4346]

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.

[@joemacinnis1972]

An absolute marvel of human possibilities

[@marilynbocanegra4960]

Thank you very much Brings back alot of memories in school

[@SuperScottschannel]

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

[@rocketdaddy35]

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!

[@hhani172]

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

[@brentsarazin4346]

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]

You’re very welcome, fam.

[@DawnInTexas]

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]

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

[@bartdereu]

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

[@Bewification]

@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.

[@OneSkiWonder]

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

[@ArnesPerama]

Terimakasih telah berbagi informasi.. salam dari Indonesia 2022.

[@TheDylanJoyce]

"Dam" that's huge!

[@MichiganQuadTrailsTales]

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]

Took longer to build a bridge over it

[@thethirdman225]

Taking full advantage of unemployment during the Great Depression…

[@Abdikarimelmi]

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

[@tracer740]

Phenomenal, absolutely phenomenal!

[@CASH-TO-THE-MERE101]

Liche Christ 👌

[@darrinmcneill534]

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

[@erichaskell]

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.

[@ahambrahmasmi2477]

ನಮ್ಮ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದವರು ಯಾರಾದ್ರು ನೋಡ್ತಿದ್ದೀರ ✌️

[@ssweeps]

Really good. Thank you for posting.

[@darrinmcneill534]

Fantastic film thanks so much

[@joelee662]

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]

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

[@actionjessie]

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]

+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]

actionjessie 😭

[@liberalssuck3155]

Its kind of funny you think of mechanical like that 😂

[@brentsarazin4346]

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

[@thethirdman225]

@@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.🙂

[@neilfurby555]

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

[@ar-15techtipsinunder5minut8]

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

[@gordoelkis]

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

[@magicalrobster]

what an achievement! so impressive

[@CASH-TO-THE-MERE101]

magicalrobster 👍

[@MoneyRay619858]

This was a great video to watch

[@christopherdibble5872]

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.

[@UnionKid15]

thx a lot for posting this.

[@mwak7]

yea really much thanks to hoover posted this video

[@Shine.-_-.Bright3]

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

[@STAR-BIJUS1]

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

[@Savatage1964]

Very good documentary!

[@ImmortalDragon]

Outstanding..

[@jrdeckard3317]

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.

[@hamaljay]

This is a good damn movie.

[@Homer4prez]

Lake Mead is nothing but a pond now.

[@hlar8605]

Ave, true to Caesar!

[@boone4531]

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

[@PatrickBaptist]

I can't help but wonder what condition the rebar is in today.....

[@mimih22a]

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

[@supra4mn]

AMAZING !

[@GMTX-kg8ep]

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

[@hablerz]

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.

[@knighttuttruptuttrup8518]

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!

[@vickydiaz1596]

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

[@michaelhaskins3038]

Remember Most workers had less than an 8th grade Education and no Computers.

[@allirocksyoursocks74]

wow great documentary

[@dhtango]

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

[@cerebulon]

The US used to be so bad ass. We don't do anything anymore. Where is our space elevator?

[@rckc.1719]

2.5 years to complete with no computers compared to 10 years today to build a building !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@bh8671]

ricky christmas except hundreds more people died building this and they had thousands of people working on it.

[@darrowfortheprosecution1404]

Read your history BH and quit pouring out the BS. 96 men died AT the dam site during its construction while various calculations and time frames put the total number at 213. I find this high number to be a useless numeration as we all go through life with the risk of dying from something. Using these methods of calculations it could easily be said that Franklin D. Roosevelt was a casualty of WWll. If you are interested in coincidence and irony, here is a jaw dropping fact about men dying in pursuit of the dams construction. www.reviewjournal.com/local/local-las-vegas/father-and-son-died-on-the-same-day-14-years-apart-while-working-on-hoover-dam/

[@gulfwinds94]

Truly amazing.

[@MrShobar]

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]

Do you know if this companies are still in business?

[@tomlindberg1496]

As my grandma said" BOULDER DAM!".

[@karadytube]

Mankind must use his knowledge for better life … so STOP THE WAR everywhere.

[@mattywho8485]

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

[@alisaleh1000]

thats amazing

[@machone7580]

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.

[@michaelbyrnee9584]

You might be surprised about some of us "tree-huggers".

[@willieoliver2023]

Before 911 we could drive across the top of the dam but that's no longer possible

[@HavinSumKindaFun]

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

[@kingkong1040]

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

[@dedmouse]

Read Desert Solitaire by Edward Abbey. He and a friend of his floated down the river jsut before the dam was finished...It's really sad how many beautiful areas were flooded by the waters behind this dam. Archaeological and natural wonders inundated by human greed.

[@kingkong1040]

@@dedmouse Nice thanks I will check it out.

[@dixiemay1996]

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

[@Eparabola]

You got that right.

[@marianacortes1114]

2019 everyone hello

[@El_Bryan2k]

Mariana Cortes11 ughfff

[@ShawnaGraham50]

This country has NOT done anything great even remotely close to this in decades and decades and decades. This countries peak time was the 50's it has been a downward slope ever since. How sad.

[@arctroopersvm346]

This is great footage considering how old it is.

[@agile16mm]

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]

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

[@billmatrisch4129]

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]

Taller than that he 700 plus in the air high

[@davidstinson5095]

721 feet tall buddy

[@agile16mm]

@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]

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

[@thethirdman225]

Who is going to pay for that?

[@skorpyonayts1169]

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

[@brianchisnell1548]

What did the fish say when it swam into a concrete wall? DAM

[@markroberts9577]

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?

[@vadimssipolnieks2103]

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

[@STAR-BIJUS1]

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.

[@PlaneReality]

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]

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.

[@yambo59]

I agree totally - I really used to be proud of my country and even a few of its leaders back when they acted halfway patriotic, but now - im becoming ashamed of our leaders, love my country but sorely dissappointed in our turncoat politicians. -- Its time we closed the damn borders get outta everyone elses business and get back to the business of running AMERICA the way its supposed to be run BY AMERICANS-!! lol

[@Dandelions]

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

[@3373-g8z]

The things we accomplished Before drug testing. America was great, now there's automobile recalls every year, and a baby born today, already owes the Federal Reserve $40,000...

[@jeffadams4590]

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

[@Yoghurt_UK]

Patrolling the Mojave almost makes you wish for a nuclear winter. - NCR Soldier.

[@tommyhatcher3399]

It's a marvel but also a shame. Many men lost their lives building that dam. They were killed for that 2 and a half years ahead of schedule.

[@alecball68]

If only in America could do that again

[@sandip0sheta]

nice

[@ki-pattao9030]

Damn, We'll i'll be dam.

[@NinjasUseGlocks]

Ave, true to Caesar

[@TheCaksone]

just an info. I saw another version of this hoover dam building video, where they show that the engineers are not very keen about the workers. the workers did not get good food and shelter and no health insurance. they also weren't paid high enough and they actually came to a phase where they feel they should do a riot and try boycotting the dam construction. it was really sad.

[@thethirdman225]

And at least 96 workers died during construction.

[@MrTigamiga]

There will be a battle for Hoover Dam in 200 years

[@henryjanicky4978]

Millions time Hoover's dam ,what do you do now ?

[@FetchTheSled]

on Lake Mead there is. big steelhead, mucho carpo

[@RachelBurkholder-o8v]

All this wonder... and still so minuscule and absolutely insignificant compared to God our Creator and what He has done. The mighty colorado is not even a paltry little trickle in comparison.

[@111vnderbnder111]

This is a dam good video ;)