Hoover Dam Scalers-Bill
Spring 2001
Look at the statue of a man hanging from the rock wall by ropes or cables.
As I remember, their job during the building of the Hoover Dam was to scale down, drill holes and fill them with explosive, blow off chunks, come down again over the cracked remaining rock sides, and do it again, and again, and again. The death rate was high.
They were "scalers".
HOOVER DAM Bill and Paul
We're standing on the Arizona (south) side of the dam; Utah is across the water. Those towers in the water behind the dam may seem to be short, but they actually extend hundreds of feet below the water surface to the bedrock.
The enormity of this place is in the vertical dimension, and I have no photograph that conveys that sense of the place. When we were down below the dam, they wouldn't permit any photographs to be taken.
