cant say hoover ****

[reppy007]

On the general b/s threads ,i was talking about the transmission towers at hoover ****,as soon as i sent it,i realized that the second word was blocked out.Maybe i should have called it hoover wall,or hoover concrete wall,i just dont know whats wrong with hoover ****.

[BigClive]

Hoover Dam?

Yeah, it would censor it if you spelled it Dam*.

[reppy007]

Hoover Dam?

Yeah, it would censor it if you spelled it Dam*.

Thanks alot,my mistake,i spelled it wrong,must be the lineman part of me coming out.

[bren guzzi]

What about DYSON. !!!!!!!!!! I find "hoover soooooo.. Ofensive. (they have more suck aswell)

[topgroove]

Hey... We could call it the Hoover Dyke. But I'm afraid it might offend a few manly women in comfortable shoes.

[BigClive]

Hoover Dyke. Sounds like a nickname for an ugly cleaning woman.

[hotwiretamer]

I suppose y'all already know that originaly it was named "Boulder Dam" as it was built next to Boulder City, Neveda?
President Roosevelt was at the Dam dedication, and never mentioned former Pres. Hoover in his speech!

Here is a little cut and paste on the lives lost:

Construction deaths
Oskar Hansen's memorial at the dam which reads in part "They died to make the desert bloom."

There were 112 deaths associated with the construction of the dam. Included in that total was J. G. Tierney, a surveyor who drowned on December 20, 1922, while looking for an ideal spot for the dam. He is generally counted as the first man to die in the construction of Hoover Dam. His son, Patrick W. Tierney, was the last man to die working on the dam's construction, 13 years to the day later. Ninety-six of the deaths occurred during construction at the site. Of the 112 fatalities, 91 were Six Companies employees, three were BOR employees, and one was a visitor to the site, with the remainder employees of various contractors not part of Six Companies.

Not included in the official fatalities number were deaths that were recorded as pneumonia. Workers alleged that this diagnosis was a cover for death from carbon monoxide poisoning, brought on by the use of gasoline-fueled vehicles in the diversion tunnels, and a classification used by Six Companies to avoid paying compensation claims. The site's diversion tunnels frequently reached 140 °F (60 °C), enveloped in thick plumes of vehicle exhaust gases. A total of 42 workers were recorded as having died from pneumonia; none were listed as having died from carbon monoxide poisoning. No deaths of non-workers from pneumonia were recorded in Boulder City during the construction period.

[T-Man]

My Grandfather Fredrick Mueller worked for P&H and installed the cranes in the generator houses at the base of the Dam. The cranes were overhead style that were there to move the armatures of the generators. We used to have a lamp made of some sort of cactus and around the base were bore slugs of the different rock they had to drill thru to set charges to carve the canyon. On the base of this lamp was a plaque with the words Hoover Dam. Wish I still had that lamp. . . . .Cool post Hot, brought back some good memories, Thanks