Friends,
How do you build a tram system up a steep slope before we invented anti-gravity boots and rock-climbing robots? Helicopters! These “mechanical dragonflies” hauled stuff up the hill to build towers and string cables so that a bunch of guys in the 1960s didn’t have to. This video is 25 minutes of your life that you may, as I do, find fascinating.
Also, the opening set-up shots are worth the time just to see the hotels and businesses that no longer exist—like Bob Hope.
Come for the nostalgia, stay for the crass jokes!
Your pal,
– bob