Regarding the Bonneville Dam; my dad remembered when it was being built that it looked like a anthill there was so many men working on it. He also told me about the Indians drying their salmon along side the Columbia, and added with disgust, how it was all swarming with flies.

It's hard to say what goes through a man's mind, but Pete Seeger seemed to have a pretty good handle on Woody when he said:

'There's good and bad things about everything in the universe I expect. It all depends where you are and when you are, who you are and what you are to decide if its good or bad'

Now my mom and her first husband had bought a Philco months in advance of the arrival of power, and her dad, a Frigidaire, which by the way, ran nice and cold all the way up until the late 90's, so there you go.

But the suspicious side of me suspected politician Roosevelt wanted to propagate radios for his Fireside Chats.