Monday, May 21st - Seeing Grand Coulee Dam

We ate an early lunch at Flo's Cafe in Grand Coulee, WA, a village adjacent to Coulee Dam where we are parked. Later we went to the Visitors Center for the Grand Coulee Dam. The dam was built between 1935 and 1942. Initially, the purpose was to create Roosevelt Lake and Banks Lake for farmland irrigation. Plus, the dam (along with others) would provide flood control by taming the wild Columbia River. Following completion in 1942, the dam was vital in providing electrical energy to Boeing, Alcoa and other industries of the Pacific Northwest key to the war effort. Grand Coulee Dam was (and is) the largest concrete structure on earth.