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Photo of officials inside one of the gigantic penstock pipes used in the Hoover Dam, 1935.
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this post was submitted on 15 Sep 2026
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So not construction workers? No reason for them to be inside a giant pipe while it’s being moved by a crane other than the photo op?
It was 1935, what else are you going to do for fun?
Wear your best suit today, we're gonna do some insane shit.
Invade Belgium
Unless it's just another one of those perspective photos where the ground is just a foot or two under them, overlooking the site from above. Seemed to be a common photo technique back then to inflate scale.
That's not to say there were not dangerous working conditions back then, but photographers also knew how to engineer stunning photos.
Fucking influencers.
Nope. Nope nope nope.
Not even for the gram?
Insta-gramophone?
Hahaha, I’m sure safe working load and safety margin on the crane capacity was a thing - though if there was an incident, then I’m sure it could be blamed on agitators
Most of the rules and safety we have today comes from decades of stuff like this. OSHA regulations are written in blood almost literally.
Everyone on that would have a hard hat, harness, and fall arresting device of some sort if it were today, and that’s because people fell getting too high without safety.
Come on now, they got a rope across the front there, surely that's sufficient? (yes, sarcasm). Haha
My great grandfather worked on the dam. He was hit in the head with a huge (steel beam? Something?) That was so heavy it pushed him into the setting concrete he was standing on. He survived thanks to headgear but he suffered brain damage that meant he could no longer smell. Wasted away because eating sucked after that.
So I think it's crazy that instead of the large tunneling bores that we use now, they essentially just had a bunch of people with large hand drills on multiple levels, all drilling out the holes all at the same time and then blowing it up in stages as they kept going.
Love the little "safety" rope
this is a very badass image. I verify.
Lol, those guys looking at the one guy holding on. Simultaneously thinking he's a wimp, and also wishing they were doing that. And then there's that dude trying to straddle the inside of a pipe. Amazing.
Sheesh 1935? Some of them are dead by now I bet.