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Dam Construction: 1955
Submitted by motobean on Fri, 02/17/2017 - 8:17pm.
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My father was a city engineer in Riverside, California for a while. He went on a field trip in 1955 to look at engineering projects in Northern California. One of the pictures he took with his 35mm Exacta was this one of a dam under construction. I think it might be the Oroville Dam. View full size.
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