Bonneville Dam was formally opened on July 9, 1938 so the complex was ten years old when Dad took this photo.*
[From my personal collection]
Here's a general overview of the layout of the dam and locks.
[Bonneville Power Admin. pamphlet "Columbia River Power and the Northwest," p. 6, 1940. Source: The Oregon Encyclopedia]
And here's what the locks look like today, after extensive changes were made in 1993.
[The Locks at Bonneville Dam, 2008. This file is made available under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication]
*As far as I know, the people in the photo weren't known to the Curreys.
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