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Hoover Dam was dedicated by FDR in 1935. (Roosevelt, a democrat, called it Boulder Dam, though congressional bills during construction named it for our 31st president, a republican.) Since then, the Hoover Dam has appeared in dozens of books, movies and TV shows. In Rick Riordan’s novel The Titan's Curse, demigods meet a future oracle of Delphi and battle an army of the undead at the dam. It’s destroyed by earthquakes in Superman (1978) and San Andreas (2015). In Fools Rush In (1997) Matthew Perry and Salma Hayek become engaged, and later become parents and divorcees atop the same dam. In the first Transformers movie (2007), Hoover Dam is the site of a government conspiracy involving Megatron and the All Spark. The 2008 History Channel series Life After People suggests Hoover Dam will probably still be running and supplying Vegas with power a year after we’re gone – until an infestation of quagga mussels inevitably takes it down.