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packman

(16,296 posts) Mon Mar 7, 2016, 12:24 PM Mar 2016

Unsung hero of Hoover Dam - A Guy you really needed

"...2007, Boulder City commissioned local artist Steven Liguori to immortalize "Alabam," one of the unsung workers who helped to build nearby Hoover Dam. Alabam was a specialist. His job was to clean the outhouses of the vast construction site: sweeping refuse, tossing lime into holes, and restocking the always-diminishing supply of toilet paper. - See more at: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/23150#sthash.EQ7KNqOj.dpuf

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Unsung hero of Hoover Dam - A Guy you really needed (Original Post) packman Mar 2016 OP

You have to respect a person who's willing to put up with that much shit. Orrex Mar 2016 #1

Orrex

(63,208 posts)

1. You have to respect a person who's willing to put up with that much shit.

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Mon Mar 7, 2016, 03:54 PM

Mar 2016

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