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Ceremony dedicating the third power house at Grand Coulee Dam. Cheerleaders and drill team performing at the ceremony, with audience and the dam in the background.
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The preparation of the southern end of the dam site has had most of the loose rock removed, and the coffer dam complete. The work of removing soil and loose rock on the north end of the dam was still under way.
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The initial level of concrete has been poured across the entire distance of the bottom of the dam. The Columbia is flowing over the central portion of the dam.
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The official opening of the contractor’s railroad was on July 29, 1935. Much of the work had been completed several months earlier. Governor Clarence D. Martin was the official engineer for the first official trip.
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Owner of Mike’s Place posed with his heated cart for selling tamales and chili in Grand Coulee, Washington during the construction boom caused by Grand Coulee Dam.