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Before
Building the Dam
150 man worker transport to dam site; 1932
Courtesy of Southern California tourism guide
150 man worker transport to dam site; 1932
Courtesy of Southern California tourism guide
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Mary Ann Merrill:
| K: How would he get out to the dam to go to work? M: Oh, they went down in the transports. K: Buses? M: Yes. They were big transports. They had a 2 decker, and they had different sized transports. They transported them all down there. K: Where would they gather? M: Don’t know. I think it was up about Arizona Street and the Nevada Highway, because it seems to me I remember them getting off up there. . .where the bus came in, probably. But they had dormitories and the mess hall. Anderson had that on the west end of town, and they probably took the buses from there also. K: The transport was provided by the company? M: Oh, yes. K: There was no fee for riding it? M: No, there couldn’t have been a fee for it. They just took them down there. Some of them went on down below; some of them on top, of course, according to where you were working on the dam. |
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