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@artygoetia1993.bsky.social Oct 10, 2026, 12:17 AM

Days in History: October 9th, 1936, harnessing the power of the mighty Colorado River, Hoover Dam started sending electricity over transmission lines spanning 266 miles of mountains and deserts to run the lights, radios, and stoves of Los Angeles. #history #HooverDam #DaysinHistory

@bill-bo.bsky.social Oct 9, 2026, 1:26 PM

Did you know?

On this day, October 9th, in 1936, harnessing the power of the mighty Colorado River, The Hoover Dam began sending electricity to run the lights, radios, and stoves of Los Angeles, 266 miles away.

😀 #HooverDam #LosAngeles #ColoradoRiver

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@worldofartbysue.bsky.social Oct 3, 2026, 1:59 PM

#AlphabetChallenge
#WeekMforMachinery
#Photography
#HooverDam
#Arizona
#ECK
Some kind of machine things at Hoover Dam (don't ask me to get technical - ain't gonna happen). I thought they made a nice geometric pattern but have no idea what they actually do!

Mechanical things at Hoover Dam. I was drawn to the repeating image of the thingys all line up nicely.

@mabelquill.bsky.social Oct 1, 2026, 3:59 AM

Roosevelt Dedicates Hoover Dam On September 30, 1935, President Franklin D. Roosevelt dedicated the massive dam on the Colorado River then officially called Boulder Dam. #TodayInHistory #MabelQuill #HooverDam #EngineeringHistory #FranklinRoosevelt #HistoryTok #HistoryFacts #LearnHistory #fyp

@lahistory.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 4:59 PM

Sept 30, 1935: Boulder Dam (renamed #HooverDam in 1947) was dedicated 91 years ago today. Los Angeles Valley College Historical Museum brochure (1928), via @archive.org: archive.org/details/cavg... #waterhistory #westernwater #OTD

A cream-colored map (1928) of the Boulder Dam Project and Colorado River Aqueduct for Southern California Cities. Map shows the path of the Colorado River and proposed Colorado Aqueduct as it flows from the Boulder Canyon Dam (in slate-blue) located on the far-right. Major Southern California cities are noted along with the path of the Los Angeles Aqueduct.

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:34 AM

‘Interior Secretary Harold L. Ickes delivers his talk at the dedication of Hoover Dam (then Boulder Dam).
30 September 1935.’
#BureauOfReclamation photographer
@livingnewdeal.bsky.social
#HooverDam #FDR #HaroldIckes #blackandwhitephotography #PublicWorksAdministration #PWA

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 30, 2026, 7:34 AM

#OTD in 1935: A New Deal Dedication (3)
#FDR to dedicate the Boulder (Hoover) Dam
🧵👇
‘Franklin D. Roosevelt touring the construction site of the Boulder Dam’ (diversion tunnel segment for penstock to turbines)
Sept. 30, 1935
#HooverDam #construction #blackandwhitephotography

@mac-photo.com Sep 29, 2026, 4:56 AM

Just a simple shot of Hoover Dam from a roadtrip one summer. #hooverdam

@causticautistic.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 4:11 AM

Oh yeah, it was electric.
So frantically hectic.

#hooverdam #dams #electricity #hydroelectric #powerlines #bridges #sunset #photography #photosky

A bridge arcs across a desert valley filled with large steel power line towers, the sun setting behind it.

@causticautistic.bsky.social Sep 25, 2026, 3:16 AM

Just another dam picture.

#hooverdam #dams #classicmono #monochrome #blackandwhite #bnw #b&w #photography #photosky

Looking down one of the cement spillway tunnels at the Hoover Dam. It's clearly been a while since it's seen a spill.

@causticautistic.bsky.social Sep 24, 2026, 7:25 PM

#TBT to 2019 water levels in Lake Mead, approximately 50' higher than today.

#ThrowbackThursday

#nevada #arizona #lakemead #hooverdam #lakes #dams #climatechange #nature #naturephotography #desert #photography #photosky

Looking out from the Arizona side of the Hoover Dam toward Lake Mead. Two intake towers stand on the left and the white bathtub ring runs around the canyon walls. A couple lines of fluffy clouds cross the sky.

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 18, 2026, 8:44 AM

In #SEPTEMBER 1940
Hoover Dam: ‘Tourists gather around one of the generators in the Nevada wing of the powerhouse to hear its operation explained, September 1940’
#HooverDam #TheNewDeal #CWA #HydroelectricPower

@lronlacy.bsky.social Sep 11, 2026, 8:02 AM

#OTD in 1933
‘The concrete foundation of the [Boulder - ultimately Hoover -] dam is poured into separate blocks called “lifts”.’
September 11, 1933
#blackandwhitephotography #HooverDam #construction #concrete #dams