plenty of engineering projects to honor...this one was a mighty disaster! nothing like a lil dominion and the destruction of an invaluable resource to soothe humanities insatiable need to screw things up .

Super cool history! Thx for sharing!

I like hearing personal history tid bits. Thanks!

Allis Chalmers

Me too! It’s the kind of thing I LOVED watching In school when we got a chance

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I do too if this was made in 2012 they'll be lying that black folk did this project.

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@@sydneywaldron1799 I’m having a hard time believing that

Wow my grandfather was either Foreman or something on the Holland Tunnel what year was that I forget but that sounded like a wild job digging through the East River going into Manhattan

Was he from Pittsburgh by any chance? we had tons of mill hunkies

Natives ?

Yep! Most uneducated men of that era did considerably better as providers than today's educated men. Kaiser ship yards... google search... Oh, so your dad also contributed to the war effort as well as providing for his family!

I helped build interstate highways, only got hit twice

Aircraft maint. Techs were very well educated. Don't sell your dad short. The army taught those guys well.

My dad was in the same situation as yours. He was the son of a blacksmith who was also the son of a blacksmith in the 1800s. His dad survived WW1 and the European depression and my dad, being a poorly educated man could not attain a high education too because of WW2 but was able to read and write. However, his will to learn and educate himself in the engineering industry as a blacksmith earned him the trust of the Army at 18 by convincing them that he could fix engines and some other bullshit. He told me that he often came across grounded Bi-planes and other WW1 relics, disassembled the engines and other components and repaired a Bi-plane which he flew above the Army barracks to show the big wigs that dad repaired the engine and rebuilt the aircraft at his dad's foundry. The army was impressed and instead of sending him to war, they gave him a mechanic job in the large military workshop, repairing vehicles. He said that he was very happy, he learned a lot and improved his skills. Then they moved him in the aircraft section, repairing damaged airplanes, Spitfires, etc. 4 years after WW2 he met and married my mum and I was born the following year. He left the Army and moved to a local town, then went to Germany, then Belgium for work before he decided to move to Melbourne Australia. There he first worked with GMH in the early 50s at Port Melbourne then with his brother opened a motor mechanic workshop and began fixing cars, trucks, etc. He had spare land adjoining the building and in the 60s extended to include panel beating and body repairs. He sent me to school to get a better education because, though he was lucky for his persistence in military skills and knowledge of his work, he had also wished he'd had a better education. Nevertheless, he wasn't envious but made sure that I was not going to be like him in education sense. At 15 I was already into his blood, learning mechanical skills and dad often provided me with something to do, repair or build, a 4 cylinder engine, or a 6V dynamo (a car voltage generator) and other sort of items I could do on weekends. Over the years I became a Uni trained mechanic engineer apart from getting trophies in sport and other nice things and then became a qualified mechanic engineer and worked with dad at first as a mechanic then as a operation manager running a team of 27 mechanics and panel beaters, electricians and so on. I never complained, instead I was proud of what I was doing for many year.

My dad was a mechanic and heavy equipment operator working on the building of the interstate highway system in the Pacific Northwest. We moved constantly following the work. In the later years as we would travel, he would proudly state that he had helped build the road that we were traveling on.

There's alot more to see up here We ain't shy about showing off our place C'mon back when ya can

You spent a day. Whoopee! My family has been here well over a hundred years. My Grandfather, and his before him, never had to leave the state to earn a living as Commercial fishermen. There were over 2,500 vessels that the river provided a living too, as well as the Natives. I am the second generation, that has had to move the family fishing operation, to Alaska. Now, we have this Pebble Mine project, that is threatening the last, as well as the largest, Sockeye run in the world. Electricity and Gold, are luxuries man can live without. With a growing world population, these Salmon, are more precious than both of these!

ConvairDart106 salmon ain’t gonna power your internet.

@@michaelwills1926 Salmon , payed ALL my bills last year! What do you think a commercial fisherman does?

@reverse thrust Where I first encountered them. I was a firefighter in the 62nd MAW, at McChord in 1979. The "Green Dragons" were scrambled, and we were put on alert. We were right by the runway, as they went by in full burner. And the sonic booms that came out of the overcast a half a minute later. Very impressive!

same here- hard to believe what this country has come to now

Same at Hoover Dam, the highway across the top tho not over a mile long like at Grand Coulee. Hoover still pretty cool for being 1 of the 1st large hydro-electrics built, even has a nice little tourist center bldg & they give great tours if during the day.

Well somebody had to say it, and you are exactly right. This country is capable of doing so much, but yet we choose to do so little. It’s sad how we’ve organized ourselves.

Divide and conquer. Sad.

Back before the government decided it wanted to control everything

The fact that you fail to see the irony in your statement is the biggest problem in the country and creates the division you claim is caused by ‘others’ when you are here doing the exact same thing by using divisive language. Shame! (If you still have such a thing where you are)

@@cyberGEK I don't see anything ironic in my statement. When the Grand Coulee damn was built it would have taken ALL sides to agree on such a project. That is working together to get a job done and improve the country. Yes I think our politicians are pethetic. They use their positions as 'stepping stones' to further their careers. They only want to appeal to their hardcore supporters even though there is a vast middle ground of independents and moderates. And yes the news media fans the flames of division. Look at Fox and msnbc as two examples.

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The view must be incredible!

The second phase of the irrigation development is dependent on the extending the "EAST LOW" canal eastward toward Washtucna. The "EAST HIGH" canal, about 30 miles north of the East low, is planned for extension in the future. Everyone who is knowledgeable of this subject will be amazed when construction begins....NEVER SAY NEVER.

John Doe, Seems like the the perfect time for a public works project once corona crap fades

Doubt you'll see the next irrigation phase built . The popular trend now is to remove dams.

I lived in OR & did the tour at Bonneville Dam & saw The Dalles several times. Both are amazing but quite TINY compared to Grand Coulee. And Hoover is cool, smaller, as well.

actually people where probably smarter back then

LOL. How true 🙂👍

construction jibe "your fired 1 sec before you hit the ground" , "dont fall humpty".

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@Rand Robinson yes Dam you got me lol

My grandfather came from PA to work on the dam. Sadly he was killed on the job. Is there any type of memorial for these men?

My grandfather (with his wife & 4 children) came from PA to work on the dam. Sadly, he died on the job. The photos of them while they lived there have always intrigued me.

You mean the destruction that they do.

Corporate welfare sucking at the public teat.

China and Russia, even DPRK, have had continual mega projects, "For the Common Good". Not that it is preferable to live in either ;)

And the government wouldn't do a public works project like this unless it would show a profit!! During a tour of the Hoover Dam, I asked the tour guide if that dam could be built today, given all the environmental obstacles. He replied that it could NOT be done today. I guess that's progress.

If you look closely, you will notice that foreigners are in control of our government and business enterprises. No I am not talking about Immigrants or people of color. I am talking about the people who have the interest of their home countries. You know who I am talking about, one of the country which is as old as this dam.

@Rand Robinson Agree, But we can not blame China for that. We need to negotiate trade deals that benefit our country. The problem is that our Giant corporations are making dough hand-over-fist trading with China while destroying our Small Business Industry in the process. Notice Trillions of dollars Apple, Amazon, and few others are sitting on. These greedy corporations are actually the culprits. Back in a day, if the project was large enough as this dam project multiple companies will join hands and form a consortium and work together. We protected our business enterprises by legislation. Sherman and Clayton's act is a historical example. Today, these Amazons and Microsoft have become SO POWERFUL that they are influencing our Internation relations and foreign Policies. We have lost our countries to vultures of Wall Street. Whoever controls our money controls us now. GOD BLESS AMERICA.

FUNNY STUFF....Needed it, been a tuff day......

WHO PUT THAT THERE?!!

DAM

Well i just woke up the wife laughing hysterically at 0130 lmao.

LOL Needed that. Coulee actually has a salmon ladder, though.✌😺

I'll probably get around to it sometime this summer. Was kinda weird, that I did Basketball Referee work all over Grant County INCLUDING in the town of Grand Coulee 2 years back, but never had the chance for a visit at that time - but I HAVE seen the Wanapum, Rock Island, and Rocky Reach dams (not sure on the Priest Rapids or Wells dams). I HAVE seen a lot of Banks Lake, US 2 crosses the dam at the south end of that then I had to take WA 155 up along the east side to get to Grand Coulee.

The shot of those guys walking across the naked beams made me giddy. I'm no good with heights....

Very nice filming and presentation

oh sorry who cares???

@@mikalchz I care, YOU IDIOT! STOP being so DAM RUDE!

@@mikalchz We do man, don't be rude.

My Grandmother lived in Grand Coulee as well.

this spirit also fucked a lotta shit, so hold your horses pal

HE always does even though we He so generously and affectionately protects us spit in His face, abandon the churches, and slaughter His most innocent unborn children by the millions.

Some heavy equipment is probably recycled and refurbished ....

We still use many of those tools today!

You make it sound like there wasn't a lot of sacrifice made by so-called settlers and descendants and blood and lives lost and considering they got paid nothing to build it.

​@@bobs6129 yep, there's always more than one perspective

Grandpa made a living but Granny made the MONEY!

So both of them worked the meat all day

@@mikewatte4478 ROTFLMAO!!! Very funny, indeed!

Or any time for that matter.

Know what was more amazing? The HUGE salmon that used to migrate up there, for hundreds of thousand of years. All gone now, for what you call progress, with a growing population, and a dwindling food supply.

@@ConvairDart106 You're just saying that so that Boeing would have less electricity and your beloved Convair would get more government contracts.

@@jamesdarnell8568 Convair as such doesn't exist, and the chain it's gone since I lost track of after General Dynamics.

Yeah, those evil Devils in the government are really destroying everything they touch! It's like the "Midas thoch", turning OUR FOOD into THEIR MONEY! Most of US PEOPLE don't see ANY of the money either, only an irreversibly destroyed river. They NEVER WILL be able to bring back those giant king salmon that used to go up there because the run is now extinct. Only GOD can undo the evil damage they have done. (Revelation 11: 18)

ARLO GUTHRIE bought a farm in western mass, and turned the 200 year old barn into his recording studio. My DAD was the last New England Farmer to cut, and bale the hay grown on that Farm, and put it up in that barn. JUST SAYING...... MY DAD WILL BE 87 ON JULY 1st. PLEASE WISH HIM WELL.

I heard that the actress who played Larry Mondelo's mom in Leave it to Beaver worked at the Hanford plant. Imagine that she found acting to be less pressure than bomb building.

Mike B Hansel is still thinking about that. He may have overstated it, but I bet not by that much.

And the government sure made a world-class toxic waste site at Hanford.

Currently, that power gets exported as far away as California. As does some of the power from OTHER large power dams along the Columbia.

Back then across the world there were standards and broadcasting stations kept to those standards in the interests of clarity

God doesnt exist...

@@zuestoots5176 maybe not for you. that is something you cannot prove one way or the other. both sides employ faith. its definition " complete trust or confidence in someone or something" i am not an athiest. , yet ive many friends who are. i do respect their position in the matter. as long as they can respect mine. neither side tries to push their own views down the others throats.

HOW SEXIST. HOW DO U KNOW GOD, IF HE DIS EXIST IS A MAN? U CANT PROVE THAT EITHER YET U STILL IGNORANTLY REFER TO GOD AS A SEX

@@yamahonkawazuki The position of the atheist is not an affirmation that there is no god, it is simply the lack of belief in any gods. It's right there in the word: "A-theist" as in no theism, no belief without compelling evidence. Most religious people do not believe in the gods of religions other than their own. Atheists just take it one god further!!! :p

It's so sad that you are right

Unfortunately, the likes of Greenpeace and Greta Thunderface have seen to it that nothing on this scale will ever be built again, except perhaps in Russia or China etc where no one dares to challenge authority.

Americans love high quality, but on one wants to work hard. We rather other countries do the hard work, then we get upset about not having work or high paying jobs. Projects like this Dam are what kept Americans employeed.

@@RelentlessDjango I think people forget these jobs were built more or less with slave wages. people nowadays could build the same things just don't allow them any food for a few months and let them watch their kids starve and you could build these great works again. they said people were jumping off the bridges and committing suicide during the depression it was so bad

@@bobs6129 Give it time.

Don't think that was part of the plan. Have seen it many times. No consideration for maintaining the species.

@@bobpaulino4714 I think they didn't think of things like that back then, however, they could've included such an item at anytime as a retrofit.

@joe jitsu That drives me crazy, too!

Like global warming.

Thinking is just too much trouble.

I learned about concrete curing as a kid who walked barefoot on a fresh slab. I never forgot what happened.

Well, they are the types of 'no spikka da inglisha' hillbillies, poorly educated, low IQ illiterates who know how to do something handy than talking or writing English.

There was a sign hanging (near beginning of film) that said "accidents are your loss"

@@matthewbryant2735 ...AND THAT'S THE TRUTH!!!

Same as the fish!

True, back when PRIDE meant something to Americans. Not what they teach in schools today, just "limpwristed smartphone texting 101"

Our infrastructure is crumbling. We can create millions of good jobs and benefit our country. All we need is new leadership in the White House.

@@jago76 And congress

@reverse thrust What a idiot/buttboy.

@reverse thrust If you will remember correctly, there was a two year period when the R's had total control of the government and could not kill the ACA, write an infrastructure bill or accomplish anything other than to cut taxes for the wealthy. Cannot place the blame on the D's. Just the facts.

Interesting that Reverse thrust, the drumpster supporter, is the only one saying bullshit, shut the fuck up, little turd, etc. Typical.

The natives always got the shitty end of the stick, to an extent. Most people forget that when a land was conquered or taken over by another group that the original residents would of been lucky to even survive, though those that did survive likely would if wished to of not.