Visiting the Hoover Dam feels to me like visiting a rift into an alternate timeline—one in which we attempt enormous, absurd, starry-eyed projects… and achieve them, under budget and years ahead of schedule!
I’d love to better understand the forces which made that possible.
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It’s an interesting list. Another one I’d add is the Crystal Palace for the Great Exhibition of 1851 - then the largest enclosed space on earth. It took only 10 months from design approval to opening to the public!
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A lot of labor at less than market wages. Post-1929, people would move in swaths near the Hoover, hoping to get a job.
For every man working, there were 2 ppl camped nearby, ready to take his place.
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