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Visited the Hoover Dam last month and something felt off
I went on the tour and noticed the tour guide avoided a whole section about the original construction workers. They glossed over how many actually died building it... has anyone else seen this weird skip?
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gibson.seth7d ago
Yeah that bit where they "glossed over how many actually died" really caught my attention too. I remember reading somewhere that the official number is like 96 but some workers say it was way higher, maybe 200 or more. Did the guide mention anything about the heat or the dynamite accidents or just totally skip that whole vibe? Feels like they sanitize the history to keep the dam looking like a cool tourist spot instead of a dangerous work site.
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Man oh man that brings back a memory. I was out that way a few years back and stopped at a little diner just outside Boulder City. Old timer at the counter started talking about his granddad who worked on the dam. Said they'd drop a body in the concrete if someone fell in because it was too dangerous to stop the pour. That story stuck with me. The numbers they give are probably just the ones they wrote down but a lot of folks just disappeared out there. Heat was brutal too my truck's AC once gave out in the Mojave and I nearly lost my mind can't imagine doing manual labor in that. So yeah they definitely clean it up for the tourists.
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