There is enough concrete in Hoover Dam to build a two lane highway from Seattle, Washington to Miami, Florida or a four foot wide sidewalk around the Earth at the equator.Д«ecause of the dam's remote location and difficult terrain, a town had to be built to house the construction companies and their workers. Hansen who saw his work as 'a monument to collective genius asserting itself in community efforts around a common need or ideal.' The sculptures at the dam were created by Oskar J. The water pressure at the base of the dam is 45,000 poundsВ per square foot.

Hoover Dam is 724.6 feet high and weighs 6,600,000 tons. The Hoover Dam has appeared in dozens of movies, including The Silver Streak (1934), Heldorado (1946), The Amazing Colossal Man ( 1957), Ocean's Eleven (1960), Viva Las Vegas (1964), Diamonds Are Forever (1971), Superman (1978), Lost In America (1985), Universal Soldier (1992), Fools Rush In (1996), Vegas Vacation (1996), Head of State (2003), and Transformers (2007). Finally, in 1947, under President Harry Truman, the dam was officially named 'Hoover.' Ickes, ordered the name 'Boulder' be used as the official designation. In 1933, the new Secretary of the Interior under the Roosevelt administration, Harold L. Although the site for the dam was moved to Black Canyon, the dam continued to be called Boulder Dam until 1931 when Secretary of the Interior, Ray Wilbur pronounced the dam would be called Hoover Dam. What's in a name, you ask? Politics! The dam was originally planned for Boulder Canyon and the early 1920's blueprints were labeled Boulder Dam.

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