Editing Concrete, Washington (section)

===Lower Baker Dam===
[[Image:Lower baker dam.jpg|thumb|upright|Lower Baker Dam]]
At the time [[Lower Baker Dam]] was completed in 1925 and two years later raised to {{convert|293|ft|m}}, it was the highest hydroelectric dam in the world.{{citation needed|date=September 2017}}  It is currently owned, operated, and maintained by [[Puget Sound Energy]].

[[Image:Concrete post office.jpg|thumb|left|Concrete Post Office]]

Author [[Tobias Wolff]] spent a large part of his teenage years in the Concrete area.  Wolff's memoir ''[[This Boy's Life]]'' chronicles his early life living in eastern Skagit County and attending Concrete High School (referred to as "Chinook High School" in the novel). In 1993, the novel was also turned into a [[This Boy's Life (film)|feature film]] starring [[Leonardo DiCaprio]], [[Robert De Niro]], and [[Ellen Barkin]].  The movie's exterior scenes of Concrete (as well as some interior scenes) were filmed in the town of Concrete and the surrounding area and a number of local residents were used as extras. In order to fit the "look" of 1950s-era Concrete, the town itself was transformed back in time "Hollywood style" for the weeks that filming took place in 1992.