Back in 1977 I lived in Vegas, and my Dad took our family on a tour of the dam, we actually went inside the dam. It's huge and scary down there. Massive turbines were cool to see.
I remember in the late 80’s we took a tour of the lower level of the dam. We saw all the inner workings of the equipment. I still have photos. I think the scariest part was the elevator ride. Precious memories. Thank you for sharing.
This is the best dam video on RUclips as far as I'm concerned. What a fun dam trip that must've been. Scary dam bridge too! I hope you make more of these dam videos in the future.
711 here. I did the hardhat tour of Boulder Dam. I got to go inside the dam. I went all the way to the bottom. I went outside and look up to the top of dam. I 11 did not exist when I did the tour. You might be surprised by all of the water that seaps into the dam. The dam is riddled with tunnels. The tour was great.
I lived in Boulder City for 3 years and I frequented the dam very often. Been inside going down the original elevator shafts into areas that are now not shown. Back then those areas were shown on tours. I also went to a Baptist church where my Sunday school teacher worked way down inside the damn and often took us young people inside the damn. Great days. A lot of great memories.
I drove an 18 wheeler 1990 thru 93 hauling lumber out of susanville california to arkansas, crossed the dam many tines, I remember them talking about building that bridge back then. Remember all the asian tourist video tapping us trucks as we crossed?
Back in the 90s we used to haul doubles trailers over the Damn at night that's all you would see is as truck drivers most of us would go up to wikieup and switch with the Phoenix drivers every time we came into the curb we always say southbound coming into the s curve but after 9:11 no more trucks on the Hoover dam I live in Las Vegas
Word has it that they are going to charge a fee at some future point, hence the reason for the second plaza. Another reason not to go to the dam. Let's not forget that we have paid for the dam and continue to do so through the taxes we pay.
I drove over Hoover Dam in a commercial truck (80ft long) as a driver trainee. The hairpin turn on the Nevada side was the hardest part since I had to take up all lanes in order to not run the trailer into the cliff wall.
My life long dream is ti visit Hoover Dam, and Las Vegas. It will never happen, though. Ever time I get almost enough money ahead to take the trip something happens.
I hauled mining equipment across the dam for many years before Interstate 11 was built. Climbing up the Nevada side was quite an experience with a 75 foot long truck.
Thank you so much, James! You're right, driving over the dam was and is very scary with the pedestrians especially just jumping across the roadway without warning. Thank you so much for being part of our community!
Thank you for this! I first drove over Hoover Dam in 1960. Wow...what changes!!! Then in 1992 did the tour of dam down under, while in Las Vagas. All the new structures including the I-11 bridge. Awesome!
Wow thanks for the cruise across the Hoover Dam. I haven't seen that place since my trip to Vegas back in 88. We took the tour inside the Dam at that time. We also crossed the border into Arizona for a few miles then back. Being from the east coast and always seeing trees it was nice to see beautiful mountains during your drive. Gotta get out there again! Stay safe on your travels :)
Great trip across the dam. It has been a few years since I drove big trucks across the old road Lots of changes since the new bridge built. Back then we used to announce 48 footer coming to the corner because two trucks could not pass going around the curve.
I'm from South Georgia, as I remember driving over Hoover Dam several times when I had been working in California in the early 90's. I enjoyed watching this, as the Interstate is all new to me, as well as the round-abouts. The road from Boulder City to the dam was once a straight shot with no turns off the road, so all of this has been changed in the past 34 years. I remember going on the tour inside Hoover Dam, as the tours were stopped for a while after 911 took place. In your video, I saw several places I had stopped to hang over the railings, to take pictures of the part of the dam at the river level, and saw a couple of the huge penstock towers where the water intakes were, which directs the water into the turbines, which drives the gigantic generators. It was well worth doing, as I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Outstanding, Herbert! Thank you so much for sharing your memories with our community! Folks love this level of detail. And, thank you for being part of our community
@@vegasdon Hey Don, I remember when Excalibur opened in Las Vegas, as I had just finished working on a job in California, then was in the casino of Excalibur less than 24 hours of it being opened. Won $160 on dollar slots, only to lose it in Laughlin a few hours later, then over the Colorado River to Bullhead City to visit friends from my area of Georgia, who lived there. Thanks for your message. Great hearing from you.
Very good video.Never been to Hoover Dam, ,now I got an idea about The Hoover Dam. For us that were not able to dive there , at least we I enjoyed the sceneries and short traveling with you. More videos Please !!!Please include any other video or photos of The HOOVER DAM. Thank You much!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Very different from the late 90's. It was a single road in from Nevada, go across the dam and a single road into Arizona. Nothing from there to Kingman. I enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting.
@@PatrickMcDade-p3m yeah that is the road that Sam Kinison cashed in all his chips..I am not sure but it may have been between Laughlin and Spotlight? Maybe folks from the area can chime in
I went to Vegas for a trade show in January, 2002, five months after the 9/11 attacks, and took a day to visit the dam. Don't remember any highway checkpoints, or how much I paid to park at the visitor center, while I took the tour, which they had just resumed. Tours no longer used the dam's original built-in elevators. but went down the elevator at the new visitor center. (Was told the visitor center had taken longer to construct than the dam itself.) The tour included a walk-thru of the powerhouse, but there were still a few things they had cut. Afterwards, walked out on the dam to the middle, then drove over the dam and a few miles into AZ, just to say I did. Stopped at the convenience store on the way back, who pointed out a coyote who liked to sit up on the hill in back, then returned and parked for free on the AZ side to take some pix. Everyone should do it.
@@stevenelson3515 Hi, Steven, it was definitely a harrowing experience. It also greatly added to the travel time between the two cities. Thank you for being part of our community
Thanks for the great clip mate. I love the Hoover Dam and have wanted to go there for many decades, however, the chances of that happening now are pretty much zero. The vishion you have here is so good, it's almost like being there. Cheers, Dan from Australia.
Been over several times. Even rented a fishing boat and cruised around on the lake back when the water was at its highest level. The water was so clear. Been in the tour inside the Damn Dam 😂
Oh boy. About 45 years ago my husband and I were long haul truck drivers. Looking at it now it has really changed. It was a narrow 2 lane road that we took around. We had to take part of the other lane to keep our trailer from getting into the mountains. All of it was a 2 lane road. But that was 45 years ago.
My wife and I drove over the Hoover Dam many years ago, when the top of the dam was just a part of US Hwy 93. I was impressed by the power station and by the Visitor Center.
Before the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge was opened in 2010 travelers would drive across Hoover Dam to get from Nevada to Arizona. That highway would take you down to Kingman, Arizona.
Try this road on a Sunday before the bridge was built back in 2005-2006. You crawled all the way. Even in 2006 the day after Thanksgiving traffic was backed up seven miles into Boulder City. We turned around and headed down to Laughlin to cross. We were in Kingman before we would have got to the dam and up the AZ side.
@@cammieg4381 My pleasure, Cammie! Thank you so much for being part of our community!
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@@vegasdon ...but you didn't reply to what they said about the overlook. I'm with Cammieg, why DIDN'T you let us see what we came here to see? The little bit we did see was nice, but still, after all that driving, didn't you even consider that we might like to see the darn thing?
Great Memory‼️ On tour, inside the base, I walked a long tiled corrador. I got permission to go up to my car, parked on top to get my Base "C" scale, bamboo flute. I got to strole the tiled hall & the reflected sound & acoustics were amazing! I also played, same flute inside rock tower & the rim of the Grand Canyon=amazing natural sound 🎶😋🪈
Was there in mid February of 1979! It was a great warm clear sunny day. Took pictures of the damn. Took the damn tour all the way down in the elevator. Saw it all. Dark and cool in some areas I remember. There was a movie of the damn being built in a room down there. The cost to do it all was 50¢ for the tour, free parking on the damn itself. And 55¢ a gallon gasoline 109 octane to get there from Henderson NV. A dirt cheap experience back then. Forget about it now. Nothing free or cheap or even reasonable now. It's a crap hole. Don't miss it.
That is so different than when we went in the early 80’s. We did a tour and I hate elevators, that was how we went down into dam. Coming back up the gentleman said it was 90 seconds going down and a minute and half coming back up, I was so scared took me a second to realize what he said 😂
Am forever grateful that in 1978 Superman was able to reverse time as a means to save the Hoover Dam from that horrific fate. Long live the Hoover Dam.
Last time I drove over dam was in 2008 I think, went on the dam tour in the early 90's and they were letting people ask dam questions. It was a pretty cool tour.
Impressive structure. What's amazing is it was "only" a prototype in order to learn construction techniques in order to build the big one at Grand Coulee.
Pretty interesting claim, considering that both dams were under construction at about the same time. There is nothing in many histories about Grand Coulee that mention Hoover. Where did you hear this?
@@wearethelandrovers9014 Without doubt the Hoover dam is impressive also, but it was finished in April of 1931 and the much larger Grand Coulee dam was started in 1933. The reason that you don't hear this about both dams and their connection to each other is that some feel that it might diminish the grandeur and pride that many have of the Hoover dam, knowing that it was also a prototype for a much larger dam to be built soon afterwards. Both structures are impressive and we should be proud of both dams.
@@markpatterson5250 Don't know where you are getting your information but it's wrong. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium named Six Companies, Inc., and construction began in March of 1931. When two of four water diversion tunnels were completed, the river was rechanneled in November of 1932. This provided the dry riverbed needed to build the dam on. A lot more work happened over the next THREE years and the final block of concrete was poured in 1935. On September 30 of 1935, a crowd of 20,000 people watched President Franklin Roosevelt commemorate the completion of the dam. Six Companies, Inc. turned it over to the federal government on March 1, 1936. That was more than two years ahead of schedule.
I have several times back in the late 80s when I first got started in the longhaul trucking industry. This was before they closed it off for big trucks.
All that security checkpoint was under construction when we were there a couple years ago. Seems like a lot of overkill for a place to ask a couple questions.
They didn't have all those secondary roads and outlooks when I went over the damn in 59. I was 8 years old then we were in a 58 Chevy wagon pulling a 14 foot camping trailer. I remember going through the then small town of Vegas. It was mybe 10 or 12 blocks long and I'm guessing 3 blocks wide.I remember Phoenix wasn't a lot bigger, after going about 3 blocks past the old wving cowboy we turned right, and dad pulled over and stopped. I do not remember why.
Thanks for showing this. I did that drive from Vegas to the Grand Canyon stopping at Hoover Dam back in 1990. Things were far less complicated then. There was no security checkpoints on that road, just drive to one of the parking areas (which were free) park and walk to Hoover Dam. I don't remember how much the admission price was for the Hoover Dam but it wasn't anything crazy.
The government has caught up to the corporate greed trend. Ten bucks to park in their parking garage. I'm not sure how much the tour is now, but I'll find out. Thank you so much for being part of our community, Yazzy!
@@metskipper Wow, you should come visit it again. It's really incredible to see it from the new Interstate bridge bypass. Thank you for being part of our community, my friend
My families favorite movie is "Fools Rush In". We drove over the damn and tried to find the spot from the movie where there was a line that said Nevada on one side and Arizona on the other. Never did find it. :(
@@gmato9 I remember that from the movie! But I'm not familiar with that location. I'll look closely for it when I record the dam again very soon. Thank you so much for being part of our community!
Yeah, that’s a cool place. I’ve been there at least five times over the years been down in the damn the whole thing. Pretty sad to see the water level, though on my last trip.😮
The 1st time we were there was '83, no bridge, no parking on the Nevada side, no visitors center, dam tours were ,$1.00 & took us down 1 of the elevator shafts Saw the massive intake for the turbines, the powerhouse & a long tunnel. By dumb luck, that was the year when there was a huge overflow due to a very high snow pack. We saw the water going through the gates on the Nevada side & make a hard right turn down the diversion tunnel. Amazing luck.
That is absolutely awesome, Glenn! I wish it was still like that. Ahh, the good old days. Thank you for sharing your memories with our community, My friend
A lot of new buildings and construction around there. My last time across was 97. Whats with the toll both? None of that was there before. The highway ran right down and across the dam. Headed from Vegas when you got to the top of hill going down to the dam Truckers would have to get on the CB and notify others they were headed down and the direction they were coming from.
Use to be able to go across the dam in a truck before 9-11 happened then they shut trucks off for fear of someone bombing the dam. Use to be quite interesting with all the foot traffic on the dam and trucks running down thru there. Thanks for the drive havnt seen it since then
@@DavidGlaum Wow! I never knew they even allowed that. Thank you for sharing your memories with our community. It really helps paint a picture over time
I went over this damn may years ago. Way before security check points, round abouts and interstate 11. And no restaurants and parking garages! Times certainly have changed!
Back in 1977 I lived in Vegas, and my Dad took our family on a tour of the dam, we actually went inside the dam. It's huge and scary down there. Massive turbines were cool to see.
Awesome! Those were the good old days. Thank you for sharing your experience with our community
I remember in the late 80’s we took a tour of the lower level of the dam. We saw all the inner workings of the equipment. I still have photos. I think the scariest part was the elevator ride. Precious memories. Thank you for sharing.
@@VeolaBrownManning Thank you so much for sharing your memories with our community! I appreciate you, Veola!
I’ve been to Las Vegas and I’ve driven over the Hoover dam. It’s been a while so I didn’t know that the dam had been moved to Las Vegas.
@@patbullard9276 Lol! Thank you for being part of our community, Pat!
Wow thanks for the damn dam tour!
@@heinzbucksandcastle2053 Absolutely, my pleasure! Thank you so much for being part of our community, Heinz!
That was a ‘Tour’??
@@tonydelaney3536 Thank you for being part of our community, Tony
This is the best dam video on RUclips as far as I'm concerned. What a fun dam trip that must've been. Scary dam bridge too! I hope you make more of these dam videos in the future.
@@tripodcatz5532 I love it! Thank you, tripod! More Dam videos are forthcoming, and thank you for being part of our community!
711 here. I did the hardhat tour of Boulder Dam. I got to go inside the dam. I went all the way to the bottom. I went outside and look up to the top of dam. I 11 did not exist when I did the tour. You might be surprised by all of the water that seaps into the dam. The dam is riddled with tunnels. The tour was great.
@@711vegas Awesome my brother! I need to get out there and do the dam tour soon
@@711vegas I was thinking about Chevy Chase in that movie...
I did it in 2001 just before 911 ,never knew what happened to the blue hard hat they gave you
@@jr3254 I didn't even know they gave out hard hats. Thanks for sharing your experience with our community
@vegasdon yea they did but so any people lost them when on part of the tour they had you look down and off they went all the way to the bottom
Awesome video! Thanx for posting this.
Thank you so much, my friend, and thank you for being part of our community!
I've been over it many many times. I remember going over it in 1966 and pointing out the old WW2 pillboxes high on the
cliftsides to protect the dam
@@ecclesrice9789 Awesome! Thank you for sharing your memories with our community, my friend!
Skip to 11:10 , you're welcome. 🙂
@@ChillWill-q5x Right on! Thank you, Will
I lived in Boulder City for 3 years and I frequented the dam very often. Been inside going down the original elevator shafts into areas that are now not shown. Back then those areas were shown on tours. I also went to a Baptist church where my Sunday school teacher worked way down inside the damn and often took us young people inside the damn. Great days. A lot of great memories.
@@williamd4707 Outstanding! Those are awesome memories, my friend. Thank you for sharing them with our community
Back in the day drove my 18 wheeler over it all the time
@@jmistret419 Thanks, do you have any harrowing stories to share?
I drove an 18 wheeler 1990 thru 93 hauling lumber out of susanville california to arkansas, crossed the dam many tines, I remember them talking about building that bridge back then. Remember all the asian tourist video tapping us trucks as we crossed?
@@noellan57 Wow! What a dangerous situation with all the pedestrians there. Thank you for sharing your memories with our community
Ive been over the dam a little over 50 years ago!
Back then I did the whole Tour.
@@jwfinley7808 I bet it looks the same, yet different
@@jwfinley7808 Right on! I'll have to do that one day
@@vegasdon how did you figure that out lol
@@jwfinley7808 Lol experience has taught me well
I did that drive,and visited the dam in 2014, thanks for the trip back. Cheers from Australia.
@@uwesteinki5037 Thank you so much for being part of our community my friend!
Driven it many times. A beautiful drive.
@@proudamerican3651 Yes, indeed! Not many like it in the country. Thank you for being part of our community
Back in the 90s we used to haul doubles trailers over the Damn at night that's all you would see is as truck drivers most of us would go up to wikieup and switch with the Phoenix drivers every time we came into the curb we always say southbound coming into the s curve but after 9:11 no more trucks on the Hoover dam I live in Las Vegas
@@krishimmel6747 Wow, that is intriguing history, Kris. Thank you so much for sharing your memories with our community
Leave the Borders Open
@@jwfinley7808 Thank you for being part of our community
That was pretty cool thanks!
@@masterspin7796 Absolutely my friend! Thank you for being part of our community
Word has it that they are going to charge a fee at some future point, hence the reason for the second plaza. Another reason not to go to the dam. Let's not forget that we have paid for the dam and continue to do so through the taxes we pay.
@@kennixox262 OH, wow! They are monetizing everything they can nowadays. I miss the not-so-greedy America
@@vegasdoneven the tax paid freeways! Welcome to "FREE AMERICA "😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
@@kennixox262 You're absolutely right! Taxation without representation, too
@@phylthamendment Exactly!
I drove over Hoover Dam in a commercial truck (80ft long) as a driver trainee. The hairpin turn on the Nevada side was the hardest part since I had to take up all lanes in order to not run the trailer into the cliff wall.
@@richardweaver9682 That had to be white knuckle driving, my friend. Yikes
I went there back in 1998, me and my brother did the dam tour. Back then the reservoir was full of. Quite an achievement!
@@jamesletourneau2048 It really is. Thank you for sharing your memories with our community, James!
Yes, quite a few yrs ago my now deceased hubby and I were one of the first people to drive over the new bridge to bypass the dam.
Thank you for sharing your memories with us. That is an awesome event
My life long dream is ti visit Hoover Dam, and Las Vegas. It will never happen, though. Ever time I get almost enough money ahead to take the trip something happens.
@@gregmilliken9659 I'm sorry. I know how that is. The car breaks down or a new appliance is needed. I totally understand
Mine also.
@@innsanewayne Come on out to Vegas!
@@vegasdon I wish
Watching this from Canada. Thanks for the adventure, sir.
@@markahad6583 Hi, Mark! Thank you so much for being part of our community, my friend
Very cool ride wish we could have seen the water but it's always interesting to go riding with the vid. Thanks for that
@@david-w6t6c Absolutely, my friend! I appreciate you, and thank you for being part of our community
I hauled mining equipment across the dam for many years before Interstate 11 was built. Climbing up the Nevada side was quite an experience with a 75 foot long truck.
@@Mojave9370 OH wow! You have nerves of steel, my friend. Thank you for being part of our community
@@vegasdon thank you sir. Fortunately I have retired. Now I travel to places like this in my Silverado, or I fly.
@@Mojave9370 Right on!
Cool Video 💯
@@arrowcrusher Thank you so much, Arrow! And thank you for being part of our community!
Very nice vlog, Don! Got a chance to visit the Incredible Hoover Dam in 2011. Nostalgic, though the drive was scary back then!!
Thank you so much, James! You're right, driving over the dam was and is very scary with the pedestrians especially just jumping across the roadway without warning. Thank you so much for being part of our community!
@@vegasdon You're very welcome, Don!
I’ve never toured the dam but drove over it many times when visiting and living there. I’ve not been there in 15 years. Thanks for the tour
Absolutely my pleasure, Bev! Thank you for being part of our community
I'm so old I used to drive my 18-Wheeler over Hoover Dam and there was actually water in Lake Mead!!!
Very cool! We have a water shortage, but they keep approving new housing developments
I went over with my parents in '69. Thanks for the ride!
Right on! Thank you so much for being part of our community my friend
You're an excellent your guide!
@@robertwallenmeyer2375 Thank you so much, Robert. I really appreciate that, and thank you for being part of our community
Nice Video! We always make a point of visiting hoover dam every time we go to Vegas...
@@bonesoup49 Right on, bones! Thank you for being part of our community
Thank you for this! I first drove over Hoover Dam in 1960. Wow...what changes!!! Then in 1992 did the tour of dam down under, while in Las Vagas. All the new structures including the I-11 bridge. Awesome!
@@bettygreen9039 Thank you so much, Betty! It is really a marvel of humanity. Thank you for being part of our community
Wow thanks for the cruise across the Hoover Dam. I haven't seen that place since my trip to Vegas back in 88. We took the tour inside the Dam at that time. We also crossed the border into Arizona for a few miles then back. Being from the east coast and always seeing trees it was nice to see beautiful mountains during your drive. Gotta get out there again! Stay safe on your travels :)
@@Birdsfly11 Thank you so much, Birds. I really appreciate you. And thank you for being part of our community
Last time I went over was in 1964.
@@michaelmeyers3664 I bet it's almost unrecognizable today from then
@@vegasdon Looking at all the new videos and photos it has changed.
@@michaelmeyers3664 It is definitely a sight to behold
Narration was really great, enjoy the scenery, great video. Have seen documentary on the building of Hoover Dam, what a feat of the power of man.
Thank you so much, Daniel! I appreciate you. It really is a modern marvel. Thank you for being part of our community, my friend
Great trip across the dam. It has been a few years since I drove big trucks across the old road Lots of changes since the new bridge built. Back then we used to announce 48 footer coming to the corner because two trucks could not pass going around the curve.
Those were some crazy times. I bet the dam looks the same, yet different. Thank you for being part of our community, Gary!
Been across that Hoover dam dozens of times years past traveling Vegas to Phoenix. Living in the Philippines now.
I hope one day they have nonstop flights between Vegas and Manila. Thar would be awesome!
Yes i hav it was amazing the heights and views stunning
@@3x3mm Right on, my friend! Thank you for being part of our community
THANK YOU FOR THE HOOVER DAM DRIVE ALONG, from OHIO!
BEAUTIFUL!!
@@floydthompson8668 Right on! Thank you for being part of our community, Floyd!
Great never driven here and doing it next week so was looking on RUclips and there you were.
Awesome! I hope it helps, and thank you for being part of our community!
@@vegasdon I think it will help massively
@@amfwelsh Awesome, my friend!
I enjoyed this video l drove through this back in 1982 ty.
Awesome, Michael! I'm happy you enjoyed it!
I'm from South Georgia, as I remember driving over Hoover Dam several times when I had been working in California in the early 90's. I enjoyed watching this, as the Interstate is all new to me, as well as the round-abouts. The road from Boulder City to the dam was once a straight shot with no turns off the road, so all of this has been changed in the past 34 years. I remember going on the tour inside Hoover Dam, as the tours were stopped for a while after 911 took place. In your video, I saw several places I had stopped to hang over the railings, to take pictures of the part of the dam at the river level, and saw a couple of the huge penstock towers where the water intakes were, which directs the water into the turbines, which drives the gigantic generators. It was well worth doing, as I thoroughly enjoyed it.
Outstanding, Herbert! Thank you so much for sharing your memories with our community! Folks love this level of detail. And, thank you for being part of our community
@@vegasdon
Hey Don, I remember when Excalibur opened in Las Vegas, as I had just finished working on a job in California, then was in the casino of Excalibur less than 24 hours of it being opened. Won $160 on dollar slots, only to lose it in Laughlin a few hours later, then over the Colorado River to Bullhead City to visit friends from my area of Georgia, who lived there. Thanks for your message. Great hearing from you.
@@HerbertPrince Ahh, the good old days. I miss them. It's great having you as part of our community, my friend
Very good video.Never been to Hoover Dam, ,now I got an idea about The Hoover Dam. For us that were not able to dive there , at least we I enjoyed the sceneries and short traveling with you. More videos Please !!!Please include any other video or photos of The HOOVER DAM. Thank You much!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
@@empeamparo4501 Absolutely my pleasure, my friend! I'll upload more Hoover Dam videos very soon. Thank you for being part of our community!
Thanks for sharing!
@@dennisconnolly1 My pleasure, Dennis! Thank you for being part of our community!
yes
Thank you, my friend!
Very different from the late 90's. It was a single road in from Nevada, go across the dam and a single road into Arizona. Nothing from there to Kingman. I enjoyed watching this. Thanks for posting.
@@PatrickMcDade-p3m Absolutely, my friend! Thank you so much for being part of our community
@@PatrickMcDade-p3m yeah that is the road that Sam Kinison cashed in all his chips..I am not sure but it may have been between Laughlin and Spotlight? Maybe folks from the area can chime in
'tis true , I remember as well...
@@noellan57 Right on!
I went to Vegas for a trade show in January, 2002, five months after the 9/11 attacks, and took a day to visit the dam. Don't remember any highway checkpoints, or how much I paid to park at the visitor center, while I took the tour, which they had just resumed. Tours no longer used the dam's original built-in elevators. but went down the elevator at the new visitor center. (Was told the visitor center had taken longer to construct than the dam itself.) The tour included a walk-thru of the powerhouse, but there were still a few things they had cut. Afterwards, walked out on the dam to the middle, then drove over the dam and a few miles into AZ, just to say I did. Stopped at the convenience store on the way back, who pointed out a coyote who liked to sit up on the hill in back, then returned and parked for free on the AZ side to take some pix. Everyone should do it.
@@loopshackr Phenomenal story, my friend! Love this! Thank you for sharing your memories with our community!
It was about 60 years ago +/- when I was across, I don’t remember much I need to do it again.
Right on, my friend! Come on out
Back when they still allowed semi's to drive across the dam I drove over it in my semi..that was amazing..but very tight small turns for a semi truck.
@@clintmuir9489 Wow! That's wild, Clint! Thank you for sharing your experience with our community, my friend
Back in the day, before the Tillman Bridge, that drive was US 93. Made for a very interesting drive between Vegas and Kingman. Crossed it a few times.
@@stevenelson3515 Hi, Steven, it was definitely a harrowing experience. It also greatly added to the travel time between the two cities. Thank you for being part of our community
Thanks for the great clip mate. I love the Hoover Dam and have wanted to go there for many decades, however, the chances of that happening now are pretty much zero. The vishion you have here is so good, it's almost like being there. Cheers, Dan from Australia.
@@Fullnoise Thank you so much, Dan! I really appreciate you, and thank you for being part of our community!
Been over several times. Even rented a fishing boat and cruised around on the lake back when the water was at its highest level. The water was so clear. Been in the tour inside the Damn
Dam 😂
@@Dld1985 Right on! I wish the water was still at those levels. Thank you for sharing your experience with our community!
Oh boy. About 45 years ago my husband and I were long haul truck drivers. Looking at it now it has really changed. It was a narrow 2 lane road that we took around. We had to take part of the other lane to keep our trailer from getting into the mountains. All of it was a 2 lane road. But that was 45 years ago.
@@cynthialand75 Wow! That had to be some white knuckle driving. Thank you so much for sharing your experience with our community, Cynthia
What year is your car that you're driving on the Hover Dam road? A 1989 300SE?
@@nnnicht 500SEL
@@vegasdon 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤❤❤
@@afriquelesud Right on!
My wife and I drove over the Hoover Dam many years ago, when the top of the dam was just a part of US Hwy 93. I was impressed by the power station and by the Visitor Center.
@@paulbowler2760 Awesome, Paul! Thank you so much for sharing your memories with our community, my friend
Before the Hoover Dam Bypass Bridge was opened in 2010 travelers would drive across Hoover Dam to get from Nevada to Arizona. That highway would take you down to Kingman, Arizona.
Thank you so much for this background, my friend. It helps out our community
it sure didn't look like that back in the late 70's. i won't be going that way anymore.
@@davidbreen4353 I don't blame you at all, David
You should say "Thank You" at Check Points.
I will. Thank you
Try this road on a Sunday before the bridge was built back in 2005-2006. You crawled all the way. Even in 2006 the day after Thanksgiving traffic was backed up seven miles into Boulder City. We turned around and headed down to Laughlin to cross. We were in Kingman before we would have got to the dam and up the AZ side.
@@erikthorne Wow! That has to be awful. Thank you for sharing these memories with our community, my friend
Thanks. Wish you could have taken us with you at that overlook!
@@cammieg4381 My pleasure, Cammie! Thank you so much for being part of our community!
@@vegasdon ...but you didn't reply to what they said about the overlook. I'm with Cammieg, why DIDN'T you let us see what we came here to see? The little bit we did see was nice, but still, after all that driving, didn't you even consider that we might like to see the darn thing?
You're right. I'll make more effort soon to get out there so you can see more of it.
@@vegasdon Great! Besides, I'm curious how the 'bathtub' ring looks now... I'm hoping the water level has raised substantially.
@@cammieg4381 Absolutely! I'll make that happen
yes, 1948, and took the tour, my dad had just bought a brand new 1948 Plymouth, gas was 20 cent a gallon.
Those were truly the good old days. I bet it looks the same, yet different
Great Memory‼️ On tour, inside the base, I walked a long tiled corrador. I got permission to go up to my car, parked on top to get my
Base "C" scale, bamboo flute. I got to strole the tiled hall & the reflected sound & acoustics were amazing! I also played, same flute inside rock tower & the rim of the Grand Canyon=amazing natural sound 🎶😋🪈
That is absolutely awesome! Thank you so much for sharing your memories with our community, and thank you for being part of it
Was there in mid February of 1979! It was a great warm clear sunny day. Took pictures of the damn. Took the damn tour all the way down in the elevator. Saw it all. Dark and cool in some areas I remember. There was a movie of the damn being built in a room down there. The cost to do it all was 50¢ for the tour, free parking on the damn itself. And 55¢ a gallon gasoline 109 octane to get there from Henderson NV. A dirt cheap experience back then. Forget about it now. Nothing free or cheap or even reasonable now. It's a crap hole. Don't miss it.
I'm jealous! Those were the good old days! Costs ten bucks to park at the dam now.
Drove my 18wheeler over Hoover Dam many times.. It saved alot of road time. Now have to go way around..
It's not faster with the Interstate 11 bypass bridge?
Is that because of September 11th and possible terrorist attack to the dam?
Yes, I'm wondering that, too
Yes it's changed after 9/11.
@@SharonBook Definitely, Sharon
That is so different than when we went in the early 80’s. We did a tour and I hate elevators, that was how we went down into dam. Coming back up the gentleman said it was 90 seconds going down and a minute and half coming back up, I was so scared took me a second to realize what he said 😂
Oh wow! He had jokes lol. That is a terrific story. Thank you for sharing your experience with our community, my friend
Am forever grateful that in 1978 Superman was able to reverse time as a means to save the Hoover Dam from that horrific fate. Long live the Hoover Dam.
Not a day goes by that I don't think about how lucky Vegas and Hoover Dam are
Toured it in the 60s an in the 90s its a different tour now than in the 60s. Enjoyed both times just different
Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing your experience with our community, my friend
1960, free tours of Boulder Dam.
@@Gumshrud1 The good old days
Last time I drove over dam was in 2008 I think, went on the dam tour in the early 90's and they were letting people ask dam questions.
It was a pretty cool tour.
@@michaelanthony1797 Right on, Michael! Thanks for sharing your memories with our community
Was there in 1982 and water was pouring over the spillways. Found out years later that has only happened twice in the entire history of the dam.
@@pi.actual It is very sad the way they keep building and building, but we are running out of water. Makes no sense to me, my friend
notice there are now clouds coming up from right. they must be of water evaporated off the lake.
@@paulchristopherriley7503 I was wondering about that. Thanks, Paul!
Impressive structure. What's amazing is it was "only" a prototype in order to learn construction techniques in order to build the big one at Grand Coulee.
@@markpatterson5250 That is fascinating! Thank you so much for sharing that with our community, Mark!
Pretty interesting claim, considering that both dams were under construction at about the same time. There is nothing in many histories about Grand Coulee that mention Hoover. Where did you hear this?
@@wearethelandrovers9014 Thank you for being part of our community, land rovers
@@wearethelandrovers9014 Without doubt the Hoover dam is impressive also, but it was finished in April of 1931 and the much larger Grand Coulee dam was started in 1933. The reason that you don't hear this about both dams and their connection to each other is that some feel that it might diminish the grandeur and pride that many have of the Hoover dam, knowing that it was also a prototype for a much larger dam to be built soon afterwards. Both structures are impressive and we should be proud of both dams.
@@markpatterson5250 Don't know where you are getting your information but it's wrong. The winning bid to build the dam was submitted by a consortium named Six Companies, Inc., and construction began in March of 1931. When two of four water diversion tunnels were completed, the river was rechanneled in November of 1932. This provided the dry riverbed needed to build the dam on. A lot more work happened over the next THREE years and the final block of concrete was poured in 1935. On September 30 of 1935, a crowd of 20,000 people watched President Franklin Roosevelt commemorate the completion of the dam. Six Companies, Inc. turned it over to the federal government on March 1, 1936. That was more than two years ahead of schedule.
I have several times back in the late 80s when I first got started in the longhaul trucking industry. This was before they closed it off for big trucks.
@@nednobody3253 Right on, Ned! I bet it looks the same yet different
Thank you Don
@@MichaelCentalonza Thank you, Michael!
i was there in the fifties.😮
@@AlanSenzaki Wow! I bet it looks the same, yet different
Come on enjoy that beautiful American picture your driving into....
@@kevinwolak1829 Always, my friend
All that security checkpoint was under construction when we were there a couple years ago. Seems like a lot of overkill for a place to ask a couple questions.
@@RandymanB It does! I agree. Unless they plan to start charging a toll there. Yuck
I went to the hover dam in 2001 and it has changed A lot I show interstate 11 being built then !
@@davidjoseph9959 It's an awesome sight to see the dam from the bypass bridge. You should come see it
l drive and walk mi familia in Hover Dam. inside to. many times. 90s 95
@@Carlosxruzcarlosc Awesome! Thank you for sharing your memories with our community, Carlos!
I wouldn't have known this place. I haven't been there since 1980
@@donnienew2352 Wow! I bet it looks the same yet different, my friend
I drove tractor trailer across the hoover dam 1980.
@@olivertaylor8788 Right on! I bet it looks the same yet different
@vegasdon I'm sure it has changed a lot sence then.
@@olivertaylor8788 I'll do another video out there soon. I'd like to learn your thoughts on that video
@@vegasdon Very well done vidio.
@@olivertaylor8788 Thank you so much, my friend! I appreciate you, Oliver
Re-adjust your camera or take off the rear view mirror. You can flip the hood emblem down or take it off.
Thank you, Bob. I'll work on it
@@vegasdon I thought it was just fine, and I think the Merc ornament is beautiful.
@@innsanewayne Thank you so much, My friend! I appreciate you!
We drive through and see it off to side when driving by .
@@jblovsoccer Absolutely! It's so cool!
It was ok, the humor in it was my kids at the time and even today look back got a kick out of saying Dam dog 😂😂
@@charlesdowell4505 That's awesome, Charles! Those are the best memories
They didn't have all those secondary roads and outlooks when I went over the damn in 59. I was 8 years old then we were in a 58 Chevy wagon pulling a 14 foot camping trailer. I remember going through the then small town of Vegas. It was mybe 10 or 12 blocks long and I'm guessing 3 blocks wide.I remember Phoenix wasn't a lot bigger, after going about 3 blocks past the old wving cowboy we turned right, and dad pulled over and stopped. I do not remember why.
@@georgecothran4760 Those are awesome memories, George! Thank you so much for sharing them with our community
Thanks for showing this. I did that drive from Vegas to the Grand Canyon stopping at Hoover Dam back in 1990. Things were far less complicated then. There was no security checkpoints on that road, just drive to one of the parking areas (which were free) park and walk to Hoover Dam. I don't remember how much the admission price was for the Hoover Dam but it wasn't anything crazy.
The government has caught up to the corporate greed trend. Ten bucks to park in their parking garage. I'm not sure how much the tour is now, but I'll find out. Thank you so much for being part of our community, Yazzy!
I was there almost 50 years ago. I don't remember the traffic circles. Is it a memory failure or the circles were made later.
My guess is is the latter. The traffic circles are a more recent phenomenon, though I'm not certain when they were installed there
1971 ! I don't remember anything like this. No bridge and the road was all different.
@@metskipper Wow, you should come visit it again. It's really incredible to see it from the new Interstate bridge bypass. Thank you for being part of our community, my friend
My families favorite movie is "Fools Rush In". We drove over the damn and tried to find the spot from the movie where there was a line that said Nevada on one side and Arizona on the other. Never did find it. :(
@@gmato9 I remember that from the movie! But I'm not familiar with that location. I'll look closely for it when I record the dam again very soon. Thank you so much for being part of our community!
Been there done that it gave me the creeps. Couldn't get across the dam fast enough !
@@NickManCuso59 I have heard from others who had the same experience. You're not alone, my friend
@@vegasdon Once was enough for me ! 🫣
@@NickManCuso59 I hear ya, my friend
Yeah, that’s a cool place. I’ve been there at least five times over the years been down in the damn the whole thing. Pretty sad to see the water level, though on my last trip.😮
@@desert-walker And they keep building more and more homes here. It's wild
Overly informative great for the viewing impaired
@@1STGeneral Thank you for being part of our community
The 1st time we were there was '83, no bridge, no parking on the Nevada side, no visitors center, dam tours were ,$1.00 & took us down 1 of the elevator shafts Saw the massive intake for the turbines, the powerhouse & a long tunnel. By dumb luck, that was the year when there was a huge overflow due to a very high snow pack. We saw the water going through the gates on the Nevada side & make a hard right turn down the diversion tunnel. Amazing luck.
That is absolutely awesome, Glenn! I wish it was still like that. Ahh, the good old days. Thank you for sharing your memories with our community, My friend
15:50 note WW2 Army pillbox on top of bluff straight ahead.
Awesome! Thank you so much for sharing this with our community
Yes, a few times back in the mid to late 60’s…
Right on!
A lot of new buildings and construction around there. My last time across was 97. Whats with the toll both? None of that was there before. The highway ran right down and across the dam. Headed from Vegas when you got to the top of hill going down to the dam Truckers would have to get on the CB and notify others they were headed down and the direction they were coming from.
@@ffwest12 Wow! That had to be white knuckle driving back then
Been there, done that!
@@artbenny Right on, Art!
Use to be able to go across the dam in a truck before 9-11 happened then they shut trucks off for fear of someone bombing the dam. Use to be quite interesting with all the foot traffic on the dam and trucks running down thru there. Thanks for the drive havnt seen it since then
@@jimthiel478 Absolutely, Jim! Thank you so much for being part of our community!
Nice Text Book Stop at The Stop Sign
@@jerrywestaway9316 Thank you, Jerry
It’s been probably 50 to 55 years since I was there had totally different. You just park almost anywhere and get out and walk around.
@@DavidGlaum Wow, yeah,they don't allow that anymore. It's all very strictly run now. Thank you for being part of our community, David
If I remember correctly, I believe we even got to go out and walk into part of the dam. I try to remember that far back .@@vegasdon
@@DavidGlaum Wow! I never knew they even allowed that. Thank you for sharing your memories with our community. It really helps paint a picture over time
I went over this damn may years ago. Way before security check points, round abouts and interstate 11. And no restaurants and parking garages! Times certainly have changed!
@@krisklopf1901 Wow! I can't imagine times like that. Thank you for being part of our community