I like taking photos of men (and women) at work when we passed by construction sites. These photos were taken when we were approaching Hoover Dam on the Arizona side.
I usually don't mention the name of businesses, especially casinos, because I don't want to be accused of personal endorsement. In this case, I thought it is appropriate to mention that the above sculpture of a man shifting a large pan for any gold flakes or if he was really lucky, a nugget of gold, is at the entrance into Gold Strike Casino in Nevada. How clever! 
If I offended anyone living in Las Vegas, please accept my sincere apology. I just thought this week "Sin Sky" would be a good fit following the theme from last Friday, "The Dam Sky".
I don't remember seeing a palm tree next to the Eiffel Tower when we visitied Paris - haa haa
And I don't remember cars passing by right in front of Lady Liberty either - unless they were watertaxis - hee hee
These two palm trees stood outside a rest stop at a welcome center in Nevada. With the heat still over 90 and would be back to 100, I thought the palm trees would be fitting for this week "Tuesday Two" post.
This sculpture is a tribune to the highscalers who worked on the canyon walls removing more than one million cubic yards of rock. These men either climbed up ropes or were suspended from anchors sunk in the canyon walls, at times swinging in a pendulum fashion, hundreds of feet above the river. 
Transmission lines carry power from the Dam to farms, factories, pumping plants, refineries, to southern Nevada, Arizona and across the Nevada desert to southern California.
BTW, Happy Friday the 13th everyone :)
Monday, June 28th, we left Kingman, Arizona, took US 93 to get to Hoover Dam. It was a 90 minutes drive. I don't remember if anything eventful happened on that drive except seeing the temperature kept getting hotter and hotter. It was 115 when we were purchasing admission tickets at 4:59 p.m. for the last tour of the day. 
Hoover Dam was the biggest man-made masonry marvel to surpass the Great Pyramid of Giza. The dam is made of more than 5 million barrels of cement and 4.5 million cubic yards of aggregate – enough to pave a standard 16-foot-wide highway stretching from San Francisco to New York City. 
Hoover Dam was originally known as the Boulder Dam project and named after the 31st President of the United States, Herbert Hoover. It was started in 1931 and completed in 1935, during the Great Depression, and two full years ahead of schedule.
Hoover Dam is 728 feet high (70-story building), and at the base is 660 feet thick (a little over 2 football fields).
This striking figures, a pair of 30-foot bronze statues, are called Winged Figures of the Republic, were sculpted by Oskar J. W. Hansen, a Norwegian born, naturalized American artist. The statues were formed from sand molds weighing 492 tons.
I highly recommend putting Hoover Dam on your Bucket List, a must visit and must see.
At the end of the tour, we had just enough time to visit "the dam gift shop". Being an engineer, my husband had to obtain a piece of history, a piece of the original copper transmission line that carried electricity between Hoover Dam and Los Angeles beginning in the 1930's. In 2002, to make room for the new Hoover Dam bypass bridge and highway, several transmission line towers in the vicinity of the dam were relocated and the original high-quality copper cable was replaced.
