Hoover Dam

Location Description

33 photos

Bridge under construction to replace the road across the...
Slightly closer look
The bridge crosses from Nevada into Arizona at a...
This is looking East in AZ where the transmission towers...
Not sure why the towers are on a tilt. Makes it look...
This is the south face of dam, on the river side. The...
Note the air intake on the face of the dam. You will...
Looking into a diversion tunnel. Four of these were dug...
This diagram shows the four diversion tunnels (on the...
Capacity of the overhead cranes. Some of what they...
The two cranes can be seen in this picture.
Everything inside the dam was spotless. The floors were...
All the designs were very Art Deco-ish (it is the 30's)...
The new bridge in the background with the generator...
Remember the air vent? Me looking out of it in a self portrait.
An attempt to tip the camera upward and catch the face...
Still not high enough.
But this is a picture of the south face of the dam up to...
Dad will need to comment here. It is a brass plate...
This was a stair way that climbed 300 feet. The guide...
... and likewise, the stair case continued down.
A door deep inside the dam. There were so many art deco...
Decorative eagle flourish on the elevator door.
The AZ side of the new bridge. The current road over...
One of the four intake towers.
It took two years to build the diversion tunnels, and...
Another view of an intake tower. Lake Mead is quite low...
A statue of winged victory outside the dam visitors' center.
A drilling rig developed during construction to cut...
A slightly better picture, I think.
What work on the diversion tunnel looked like. Don't...
There were 85 men who died during the construction of...
There was an aerial cableway built across the canyon to...