True but today's money is worthless since the value has been nonstop redistributed and extracted by centralized entities since then. Now our economy is a cheap gimmick, like all the other national narratives of being the envy of the world, now hollowed out by the same centralized folks inconvenienced by such decentralized integrity and wellbeing.
I went to do a home improvement job once and saw that photo framed and displayed on a wall. I told the homeowner ( an 80 year old man) how much I've always liked it. He walked up to it and said "see that guy there?- that's me". He then went and got a scrapbook and showed me many similar photos of him "at work".
Such a iconic photo of these incredible men who built the most amazing buildings in NY with such high risk with no health and safety true bravery at such a hight. Much respect to those men.
I bought that same photo for my husband who is an iron worker. That is a special breed of men who can do that type of work, and these days they are few. He survived a 3 story fall one day that knocked him unconscious and split his helmet.
I feel for you.. I was lineman and after seniority took a electric protection gig for NYC I.W... and watch a man fall 3 stories, bounced of a one level and hit the ground. Surreal he survived and did fire watch for structure wielders.. basically with arm in a cast.. tough group of men and women in that craft
I just passed out and fell looking at the oringinal picture. I can 't do that high of heights. Those men look so calm and nonchalant. Brave men. What they were willing to do for feeding their families.;😮
@@LazyLizzy706 They hired a lot of native people to work on the skyscrapers, because they had greater ease working at extreme heights. Typical men refused to go up there. "Iroquois ironworkers, especially the Mohawks, are legendary for their dizzying work in erecting skyscrapers and steel bridges. Mohawk men have walked and worked on nearly all of New York City's towering buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center." --Walking the Steel: Generations of Ironworkers They are called Skywalkers.
I am afraid of heights as well. Every time I see that photo, I get pains in my knees and a little bit of disorientation. I also receive pain in the knees when I see someone being injured. I thought I was a little bit weird until I was made to understand that I am an empath. I seriously have to monitor the kind of information that I take in because it can be overwhelming and exhausting at times. I’m no Tin Man, I feel everything!
Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the RCA Building in Manhattan, New York City. It was arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper. The photograph was first published in October 1932 during the construction of Rockefeller Center.
The _Iwo Jima_ flag raising photo and the starless sky moon landing shots were fake too. Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see.
@@giraffewhiskers2045 wtf are you talking about. You can't give man any credit for crying out loud? There were no women in the pic. If the video was about women and people said bless all the women doing whatever the video was about... I wouldn't pipe up saying what about the men that fought and died in all the wars. Get outta here
Is the picture Lunch atop a Skyscraper real? The photograph isn't even a candid shot of a once lunch event. It was really all a publicity stunt by the Rockefeller Center to advertise their new RCA building, which was almost finished. The men did really sit on the beam and chow down, but it wasn't their idea, and certainly not a regular occurrence.
Original picture of guys who deserve huge respect, risking life and limb to build the world we benefit from, and not too well paid either. Best if I don't comment on the people in the today pictures.
"Iroquois ironworkers, especially the Mohawks, are legendary for their dizzying work in erecting skyscrapers and steel bridges. Mohawk men have walked and worked on nearly all of New York City's towering buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center." --Walking the Steel: Generations of Ironworkers They are called Skywalkers. I'm just going to leave this here, too. I responded with this to another person's comment, and realized this information should be posted on the main thread, also. Mad respect to these amazing people!
I have the original photo hanging in my kitchen. It’s amazing knowing what it took to build NYC in a time when so many people risked their lives to do it.
@@TheRandompaint What photo, the original? You are aware that men used to walk on steel beams, many stories high, with no safety harnesses or ropes, to build NYC, correct?
@@TheRandompaint It doesn't change the fact that men actually risked their lives everyday building highrises while you split hairs because that's the extent of your capabilities.
@@asherrogers2687 Oh, sure... But they also had a solid floor just below them. Out of shot. JUST like these people have in their modern recreation of the shot. They were very familiar with trick photography even back then. This was a media stunt to promote a return to industry and prosperity after the economic crash of the late 20s.
That is pretty awesome to go to while you're in New York!! BUT.....just think.... those men that did the original photo had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING protecting them from falling!!! SUCH BRAVE MEN who worked so EXTREMELY hard to provide for their families!!!!💜
What about the one red head chick that puts her hands up like it’s a roller coaster! Take your seatbelt and your little seat backing off and THEN put your hands up in the air!! What ticks me off is everyone else is doing a regular photo and she puts her hands up blocking the woman on her right. . . Other woman even has to put her head around the red heads body so that she could be seen from Armpit Annie!
The fact that in the original photo the guys are just sitting up there with nothing behind their back or in front of them to prevent them from falling makes me so nervous. I don’t know how they were so casual in that photo. I would be panicking.
The best tribute photo I've seen to date is the photo they took in Calgary of the local iron workers on the Bow Building. 🥰 THESE MEN STILL EXIST BUT THEY ARE A RARE BREED
The people of the country should be proud of the those workers ! Those are real men who get the job done without questioning or complaining , truly the ones to get inspired from .
My dad was an iron worker and he was screwed over really badly he was injured at work and the union and his boss refused to pay for the surgery he needed he ended up getting it thru the va but it was horrible workman’s comp said no your heath ins should help you and his health ins would say no the workman’s comp needs to help you. It’s absolutely ridiculous how my dad was treated in a job like that we thought had his back he was a foreman and had been doing it a long time. It’s absolutely disgusting since it’s happened he’s lost his mind and has become hooked in pain killers from the injury he had at work. He only got surgery because he was in the va. Even Cigna ins he had thru his job wasn’t covering these injuries.
@mitchelleroberson, that's terrible to hear,and I'm sorry your family went through this.I work in the trades for a union company and had a bad fall of 21 ft and broke multiple bones but had an opposite experience, I even still work for the same company still. Did your father not hire a lawyer,or ever talk to lawyer to see if they could do anything? Did they blame him for not following safety rules or something,it's crazy that they got away with something like that
@mitchelleroberson as a former Ironworker who was injured pretty badly, it's up to workers comp or his ins to pay, not the union. Sorry to hear about him
Wife did drywall spackle and some painting in the tall thin tower in the background! These apartments where huge and luxurious. The penthouses alone go for over 66 MILLION! My wife helped do flooring in one of them the client loved the pattern hated the color. Asked her to rip it all out and took months to replace. She got paid good but said she would never so it again. Weird fact the designer/architect of the building based the design on NYC trash cans wich is why the tower has many random gaps for wind passage thus sways less.
Cool info. I'm a flooring contractor so I can imagine what a pain in the A it was. Nowhere to cut, having to bring tools/materials up elevators is a mess. What's the name of the building, do you remember? And those spaces are empty gaps from one side to the other?
Do you know who had balls those days? The bosses and owners who cared nothing for the safety, these were abused men, slaves for a sum of money, risking their lives for a salary that was probably outrageously low.
@@PabloMorenoCordon-pr8wbnobody died while building the Rockefeller building. (That photo) only 3 died while building the empire state building. 50 years later right after OSHA was created over 80 workers died building the WTC while following OSHA rules. The insane amount of rules created by osha has killed dozens of more workers at a rate 100x fold than pre osha. Stop drinking that government kool-aid.
It's on the Rockefeller Center. I don't know how much the ride cost. I think it was around $40 when a friend went to the top of there on the observation deck.
Every city across the country needs one of those on top of the bigger buildings so some folks can experience it. A big shoutout to NYC for already installing those hydraulic beams✌️✌️👍👍🤘🤘
There’s so many time periods and places that I can’t even comprehend living in. So much of the past seems so surreal and unimaginable. It’s crazy how people in the 2300s are going to look back at us the same way.
We're headed back to a new dark ages. After Rome fell it took a thousand years to start regaining just a little bit of what they had. The poor poverty stricken people in 2300 will be looking at these times like we were the lost city of atlantis
Cost of the ‘ride’: $10,000 Cost of the ride’s spinning mechanism: $9,000 _”Why don’t we just have them sit facing the other direction instead of spinning them around?”_ Contractor: “…”
Is the picture Lunch atop a Skyscraper real? The photograph isn't even a candid shot of a once lunch event. It was really all a publicity stunt by the Rockefeller Center to advertise their new RCA building, which was almost finished. The men did really sit on the beam and chow down, but it wasn't their idea, and certainly not a regular occurrence.
That is awesome. At first,I thought “ my goodness- they’re crazy!!!” This increased my fear of heights to have them sitting there on that beam, knowing that they might fall off. I didn’t see the seats belts. Afterwards, that looked pretty cool!!!
A person who's dear to me, one of her distant family members is in that picture, it's a small world bc i loved that photo for years before i knew this person
They need to make a "how did they get out on the beam to sit and have lunch experience". Those men were some of the hardest on the planet. Respect, as a man I can say for sure there's no way I could do that job even with modern equipment.
The Native American steel works did it in bare feet. They were apart of just about every sky scrapper but that's not really noted in the history books.
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They probably paid more to sit up there and take a photo then most of those men were paid the entire time building it.
RAARAS CAPITALISM ARF WOOF
True but today's money is worthless since the value has been nonstop redistributed and extracted by centralized entities since then.
Now our economy is a cheap gimmick, like all the other national narratives of being the envy of the world, now hollowed out by the same centralized folks inconvenienced by such decentralized integrity and wellbeing.
Were they paid?
Nah, people were paid better back in those days. Strong unions 💪🏼
I looked into that years ago and don’t remember specifics but these constructions workers were paid roughly double the minimum wage of 1932.
Shout out to the men who made that. They didn't think it was bravery, just work 💪
They thought it was brave as well, which is why they staged that photo, lol
Sure 😃😊 Men stuff 💪🏼💪🏼
Thank you... We act like we've changed over the years. @@ATSaale
@@MitchellPierson so youre claiming evolution is a myth? Stop forcing your conservative dangerous views on everyone!
They risked their life's with no safety 🦺 on
Those construction workers in that old photo had balls of steel, pun intended 💪🏼
Why you intended pun ?
No they didn’t they had no common sense back then
Its photoshopped picture. They were sitting on the ground.
@@brianellis6880common sense didn’t get you the job and maintain it. The real world is not the one u think it is
@@stuckinperth actually it did, common sense has gotten me very far in life
I went to do a home improvement job once and saw that photo framed and displayed on a wall. I told the homeowner ( an 80 year old man) how much I've always liked it. He walked up to it and said "see that guy there?- that's me". He then went and got a scrapbook and showed me many similar photos of him "at work".
Tell us his great stories 😊
Wow！ Thank you for sharing the story. You've met the LEGEND!!!
richardoconnor7112: So, which man in the photo was 'him'? Would love to know. BTW, what a cool experience to have had. 👍
Veerrrrrry interesting as I know your lieing.
But fun to pretend.
Unless your saying he was a model?
It’s legendary 👏👏👏👏👏🙏👍🏼❤
From tough men risking their lives for pennies to overpaid tourists in heels.
The original photo was actually staged as a promotional piece/publicity stunt for RCA
Its a clown world 🌎 🤡
You’re paid what you’re worth. If you want to be worth more make yourself more valuable, make what you do more important
@@Arizona92869 She didn’t even act like one ?
Yup
No one will ever be as cool as those men
💯
Idk my cousin can do wheelies on his motorbike
@@Pillboxingthat is cool, but not even close
Facts.
The high scalers that helped build the Hoover Dam were more brave.
Such a iconic photo of these incredible men who built the most amazing buildings in NY with such high risk with no health and safety true bravery at such a hight. Much respect to those men.
Height.
Respect ❤
I guess Chicago , Dubai and Toronto had them too
@@MusicismoreImportantGolden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, Eiffel Tower, Cristo Redentor... we could even throw in many ancient structures
Are you a bot?
Those men were absolute legends! 💪
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There was a platform 10 feet below them.
@user-rl7mt4gh3o Empire State Building? It was a Rockefeller center publicity stunt
They were posing for a picture. And its not just one picture. There are several of them. Its completely staged.
@@captain_context9991 yep
I bought that same photo for my husband who is an iron worker. That is a special breed of men who can do that type of work, and these days they are few. He survived a 3 story fall one day that knocked him unconscious and split his helmet.
I feel for you.. I was lineman and after seniority took a electric protection gig for NYC I.W... and watch a man fall 3 stories, bounced of a one level and hit the ground. Surreal he survived and did fire watch for structure wielders.. basically with arm in a cast.. tough group of men and women in that craft
I got nothing but respect for Iron workers. I used to want to do it but went with the electrican route
@@jamesomahoney2181let's be real here. Not a lot of "women" in these fields
Dude your husbands a badass
So did he get workman's comp or what? Doesn't sound like a great job if it's that dangerous.
I just passed out and fell looking at the oringinal picture. I can 't do that high of heights. Those men look so calm and nonchalant. Brave men. What they were willing to do for feeding their families.;😮
The original photo was also staged…
@@ambitiously_lol, what?
thats what they chose to do , respect!
Fear of heights was less common back then than it is today. So that’s why they were able to pose for the photo. The fear just wasn’t there.
@@LazyLizzy706
They hired a lot of native people to work on the skyscrapers, because they had greater ease working at extreme heights. Typical men refused to go up there.
"Iroquois ironworkers, especially the Mohawks, are legendary for their dizzying work in erecting skyscrapers and steel bridges. Mohawk men have walked and worked on nearly all of New York City's towering buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center." --Walking the Steel: Generations of Ironworkers
They are called Skywalkers.
I’m begging the movie industry, please put this in the next Final Destination movie😂
I like how you think!😂
Very under rated comment
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Classic 😂👏👏👏👏
💯 Percent agree👌
I guess I wasn't the only one thinking they were about to get yeeted🫣
I love that old photo of the construction workers ...loved it for years ! They just sittin ' up there like they were sittin ' in their
kitchen ! 😂❤
Every time they showed the old photo, I got tingles in my feet, I'm afraid of heights. Those men on that beam up so high🥺
I know those tingles very well.
I am afraid of heights as well. Every time I see that photo, I get pains in my knees and a little bit of disorientation. I also receive pain in the knees when I see someone being injured. I thought I was a little bit weird until I was made to understand that I am an empath. I seriously have to monitor the kind of information that I take in because it can be overwhelming and exhausting at times. I’m no Tin Man, I feel everything!
It was staged.
Yes...do not like heights. Agree
❤
But I've seen entire videos of workers scaling these structures without any harness and a toolbag @@helloworld3943
Lunch atop a Skyscraper is a black-and-white photograph taken on September 20, 1932, of eleven ironworkers sitting on a steel beam 850 feet (260 meters) above the ground on the sixty-ninth floor of the RCA Building in Manhattan, New York City. It was arranged as a publicity stunt, part of a campaign promoting the skyscraper. The photograph was first published in October 1932 during the construction of Rockefeller Center.
I'd like to see footage of them getting off of it. Nerve wrecking
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The _Iwo Jima_ flag raising photo and the starless sky moon landing shots were fake too. Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see.
How did they get down off it tho??
Sick then, sick now
Imagine if it glitches and starts spinning really fast.
😂😂
I dont imagine it. I wish it with all my heart.
😂😂😂
Made me laugh 🤣
😮
Those men who built had balls of steel
Nah, they were just immigrants desperate for money.
It was actually staged
OH HELL NO!!! My stomach is doing flip flops just watching this - I could never do that for real!!!
Me too!
Me three!
Took the words out of my mouth….. nope naw nah negative ALL THOSE 😂😂
Me 2!
There’s a large glass window behind them
Mad respect for the men who built America!
And women. ☺
You mean the slaves?
@@PauIdenino😂😂😂😂😂
@@PauIdeninoWhat load of bs no women climbed and built towers
@@KyVisualsslaves were building the high rises? Weren’t slaves only used to build some railroads but mostly used in agriculture?
Can't replace those hardworking legends.. respect for those men ❤ 🇮🇳
Men were doing every unbelievable hard jobs to feed their families across 🌎
And what about the women do do the same? Single mothers don’t get credit
People
@@giraffewhiskers2045building skyscrapers?
@@giraffewhiskers2045 wtf are you talking about. You can't give man any credit for crying out loud? There were no women in the pic. If the video was about women and people said bless all the women doing whatever the video was about... I wouldn't pipe up saying what about the men that fought and died in all the wars. Get outta here
@@giraffewhiskers2045well never saw you in that old old old picture of the
Building the sky scrapers in New York
“Lets make a weirdly shaped bench that rotates on top of a building and have people pay to sit in it”
Sold!!
Able to sell useless things and call it an experience= Genius
Right
They'll be sitting for quite a while if that structure somehow can't come down.
Look at the stuff they have tourists doing 😂 Bless their hearts
Yeah, that’ll be $50 thanks.
@@rad1930😂😂😂❤
Well better than working on something that you’ll probably never live to see fully completed lmao
So cute and southern....indeed bless their hearts
@@WatchFelineSpineidk I think I'd rather that than gimmicky tourist nonsense
Nothing beats the real thing. Running around, hanging iron all day. Boilermakers local 169
Yessir. I'm no iron worker but while in the Navy, I had to chip and paint the stacks while hanging in a bosun chair... good times.
Is the picture Lunch atop a Skyscraper real?
The photograph isn't even a candid shot of a once lunch event. It was really all a publicity stunt by the Rockefeller Center to advertise their new RCA building, which was almost finished. The men did really sit on the beam and chow down, but it wasn't their idea, and certainly not a regular occurrence.
This is a really great photo of the true brave men at the time the empire was built ❤
Bless those legends who braved this view when building N.Y. 😮
“Oh my gosh there’s another one.”
Hearing those words gives me chills and not what I would wanna hear on top a building in NY.
Reminds me of that tragedy.
@@elliotkeil6063I didn't even know he was sick
@elliotkeil6063 is that the tragedy when the government blew up two towers and another one to hide trillions of dollars ?
Lol
Who cares
Original picture of guys who deserve huge respect, risking life and limb to build the world we benefit from, and not too well paid either. Best if I don't comment on the people in the today pictures.
It’s hard to tell the difference actually
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Notice no kangz that built america supposedly in photos like this
100% right
They were posing for a picture. And its not just one picture. There are several of them. Its completely staged.
Something feels wrong about a picture documenting the horrible working conditions of laborers being used as a tourist attraction.
We should just get rid of museums
That’s NYC for you
How a fake picture can document something lol
@@EvanWerewolf exactly 😂 it was literally staged for THEIR SAFETY and to promote their work.
Exactly! This is disrespect toward dying labor immigrants from Europe!
"Iroquois ironworkers, especially the Mohawks, are legendary for their dizzying work in erecting skyscrapers and steel bridges. Mohawk men have walked and worked on nearly all of New York City's towering buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center." --Walking the Steel: Generations of Ironworkers
They are called Skywalkers.
I'm just going to leave this here, too. I responded with this to another person's comment, and realized this information should be posted on the main thread, also.
Mad respect to these amazing people!
Facts
Newfoundlanders played a huge role at Ironwork in newyork as well
The Jay treaty in it's peak form
Cool 👍
Not only that, they were highly sought after by the contractor for their skills and payed better than the average steel worker.
I have the original photo hanging in my kitchen. It’s amazing knowing what it took to build NYC in a time when so many people risked their lives to do it.
You know the photo was staged right?
@@TheRandompaint What photo, the original? You are aware that men used to walk on steel beams, many stories high, with no safety harnesses or ropes, to build NYC, correct?
@@FloatingThroughTheRealm does that change the fact that the iconic photo was staged? No.
@@TheRandompaint Whether the photo is staged doesnt change the fact that those were real men not the p*ssies of today called men,
@@TheRandompaint It doesn't change the fact that men actually risked their lives everyday building highrises while you split hairs because that's the extent of your capabilities.
This is absolutely one of my favorite pictures of all time
They were posing for a picture. And its not just one picture. There are several of them. Its completely staged.
@@captain_context9991The original guys were still 850 ft off the ground.
@@asherrogers2687
Oh, sure... But they also had a solid floor just below them. Out of shot. JUST like these people have in their modern recreation of the shot.
They were very familiar with trick photography even back then. This was a media stunt to promote a return to industry and prosperity after the economic crash of the late 20s.
Mind-blowing.
The OG'S weren't wearing seatbelts , hello .
The OGs couldn't sue for unsafe working conditions. Tourists can sue.
It’s almost like we’ve progressed into a more sensible world or something
@@OnlyAchievingHereright like why are people shaming these tourists for not putting their lives at risk
They also didn't have lawsuits back then. How about some common sense about present day reality over your fantasy
The original was a staged photo and if they fell nothing happened
That is pretty awesome to go to while you're in New York!! BUT.....just think.... those men that did the original photo had ABSOLUTELY NOTHING protecting them from falling!!!
SUCH BRAVE MEN who worked so EXTREMELY hard to provide for their families!!!!💜
It was literally staged
"Oh my gosh there's another one"
Wow, what a bright spark.
Lmao 😂
That was a great observation
Those men back then, were mother'fu**in' wild boys!!!! Man oh man. Salute 🫡 👏🏽
“OmG WeRe sO CraZy” they’re even strapped in! What the hell! 😂
Lmfao! It makes my skin crawl watching this. 2nd hand embarrassment is real.
What about the one red head chick that puts her hands up like it’s a roller coaster! Take your seatbelt and your little seat backing off and THEN put your hands up in the air!! What ticks me off is everyone else is doing a regular photo and she puts her hands up blocking the woman on her right. . . Other woman even has to put her head around the red heads body so that she could be seen from Armpit Annie!
@@FrostyTheSnowman12321 lOoK aT Me LooK aT mE🤣🤣🤣
No one can recreate the hard-work & passion that group of men had for building that. They really build that for the view ❤
It was staged picture. Stop giving every men praise for doing nothing but faking😂
@@eo0-g9j read it again
It was during the depression. A lot of men were very willing to risk their lives for a paycheck.
I rewatched this video only to see those hardworking men. America as we call it now is built by them. True legends.
The fact that in the original photo the guys are just sitting up there with nothing behind their back or in front of them to prevent them from falling makes me so nervous. I don’t know how they were so casual in that photo. I would be panicking.
something about being paid less than a dollar a day makes you not really care about whether or not you live or die
They were casual because it was staged. Look it up.
@@TheRandompaintMaybe that particular photo was staged, ...but the real work of building infrastructure in NYC and elsewhere was extremely dangerous
@@nataliandreapowell1420 ngl I was disappointed when I learned of it
A man gotta eat
That new pencil building is such an eyesore
I thought so too!!
The best tribute photo I've seen to date is the photo they took in Calgary of the local iron workers on the Bow Building. 🥰 THESE MEN STILL EXIST BUT THEY ARE A RARE BREED
Alhamdoulillah Im Not interessed in this
The person in the middle of that beam stayed in one spot ! I'd want my money back 😂
The people of the country should be proud of the those workers ! Those are real men who get the job done without questioning or complaining , truly the ones to get inspired from .
Ironworkers
Brothers of the hook
Much respect to them and anyone else in the trade stay safe fellas 🙏 👍🏼 💪🏽
My dad was an iron worker and he was screwed over really badly he was injured at work and the union and his boss refused to pay for the surgery he needed he ended up getting it thru the va but it was horrible workman’s comp said no your heath ins should help you and his health ins would say no the workman’s comp needs to help you. It’s absolutely ridiculous how my dad was treated in a job like that we thought had his back he was a foreman and had been doing it a long time. It’s absolutely disgusting since it’s happened he’s lost his mind and has become hooked in pain killers from the injury he had at work. He only got surgery because he was in the va. Even Cigna ins he had thru his job wasn’t covering these injuries.
Tell your dad to switch to Aetna. They've been good so far. Speedy recovery to him.
@mitchelleroberson, that's terrible to hear,and I'm sorry your family went through this.I work in the trades for a union company and had a bad fall of 21 ft and broke multiple bones but had an opposite experience, I even still work for the same company still. Did your father not hire a lawyer,or ever talk to lawyer to see if they could do anything? Did they blame him for not following safety rules or something,it's crazy that they got away with something like that
@mitchelleroberson as a former Ironworker who was injured pretty badly, it's up to workers comp or his ins to pay, not the union. Sorry to hear about him
The construction workers had no setbelts and they had to stand up after lunch go back to work.
The photo was also faked 😂
Back when men were men and not sissy’s
Nope, it's real@@TheRandompaint
@@MajorMeowzer go learn a little fam🙃
Also they were above 50 floors in the air without a platform under
Wife did drywall spackle and some painting in the tall thin tower in the background! These apartments where huge and luxurious. The penthouses alone go for over 66 MILLION!
My wife helped do flooring in one of them the client loved the pattern hated the color. Asked her to rip it all out and took months to replace. She got paid good but said she would never so it again.
Weird fact the designer/architect of the building based the design on NYC trash cans wich is why the tower has many random gaps for wind passage thus sways less.
Wow.that building got my so intrested.And then I found your comment .its so thin and unusual :)
Cool info. I'm a flooring contractor so I can imagine what a pain in the A it was. Nowhere to cut, having to bring tools/materials up elevators is a mess. What's the name of the building, do you remember? And those spaces are empty gaps from one side to the other?
@@cwatson42785 Its called the Steinway Tower, and Mhmm! The buildings design is so thin to reduce sway theose are legit just giant empty gaps.
Why all this information
That’s really interesting!
Great idea!!! And, that's way ya do it. What an incredible dedication! Those souls are in they're glory. Smiling down!!👆
Those guys had balls, holy.
Men these days don’t lol
Do you know who had balls those days? The bosses and owners who cared nothing for the safety, these were abused men, slaves for a sum of money, risking their lives for a salary that was probably outrageously low.
Photo manipulation existed back then
@@PabloMorenoCordon-pr8wbnobody died while building the Rockefeller building. (That photo) only 3 died while building the empire state building. 50 years later right after OSHA was created over 80 workers died building the WTC while following OSHA rules. The insane amount of rules created by osha has killed dozens of more workers at a rate 100x fold than pre osha. Stop drinking that government kool-aid.
@@Caligrapher88 that wasnt such a big deal back then tho
I saw a pic of the photographer who took that photo. It’s Equally insane.
They eat toenails as breakfast
@@shadowgojiro mmmmm
Yep, him in a suit and tie with his camera bracing himself against a beam while getting tha shot. He looks just as fearless.
Only in N.Y. ENOVATING TO GET THAT $$$ gotta Love it.
Innovating **
Gives me chills looking at that old image
Of these brave men
Amazing, hardworking MEN. Extremely respectable. 🙏🏽
NOT in a trillion years!!! It makes my stomach turn into knots just watching them!!!
I hate heights 😅😢😢 can't even look out my 4th floor window without feeling light-headed 😭
Same! No seat belts and it looks like it’s windy. Seems pretty reckless
@@JamietheroadrunnerI checked, there are seatbelts. Thank heavens.
@@Traci_Websinger 😰
Me and my buddy had a job where we had to remove a gutter from a 4 floor at the edge of the roof it feels like double 😅
Lunch is the amount of time they had from getting lifted up or lowered down.
"Slow and easy just like a lunch"
New York is very beautiful big City.Happy New Year.
The most beautiful part of the video is to hear and see people having fun I like that.
They’re SO PROUD of themselves 🫣😶😶😶😶
This is a GREAT idea, and a tribute to the talented and brave workers.
How much does experience cost and what building is it on?
Your life
Lol, but that does not answer my question.
It's on the Rockefeller Center. I don't know how much the ride cost. I think it was around $40 when a friend went to the top of there on the observation deck.
$25 in addition to admission to 30Rock
too much
you need a 20 mph wind and a tremor on the beam and a 400 ft drop...
The structural engineer and architect probably allowed for hurricane force winds, NYC building code is very stringent.
They would’ve made more money if they had the Ibeam out into the swing out into the middle of the street😂😂😂
Struggled with the comment bud. Everything will be okay 👍
F the insurance premium would be sky high
@@Sharyk808was I same the thinking.
Been cool it have would had.
@@Sharyk808 Was wondering how they actually got insurance to build 2.
Every city across the country needs one of those on top of the bigger buildings so some folks can experience it. A big shoutout to NYC for already installing those hydraulic beams✌️✌️👍👍🤘🤘
I was a tourist in NYC 3 weeks ago and did the Beam . Fun experience and photo is a great souvenir
There’s so many time periods and places that I can’t even comprehend living in. So much of the past seems so surreal and unimaginable. It’s crazy how people in the 2300s are going to look back at us the same way.
We're headed back to a new dark ages. After Rome fell it took a thousand years to start regaining just a little bit of what they had. The poor poverty stricken people in 2300 will be looking at these times like we were the lost city of atlantis
They remind me of people who go on vacations to volcanos
😂😂😂
Great picture of the true heroes for whom this was a job to feed their families, not a photo op for social media
Cost of the ‘ride’: $10,000
Cost of the ride’s spinning mechanism: $9,000
_”Why don’t we just have them sit facing the other direction instead of spinning them around?”_
Contractor: “…”
Our forefathers didn’t have sit belts on
They also weren't women😂
They also didn't have workman's comp. Ah the good ol days, when labor lives were worth nothing.
It was fotoshop!😅😅😅😅
And they could carry their body weight
They also on average died at 35 years old 🤣
Glad the new generation get to enjoy the fruits of the labor from those that came before them. If there ever be a respect it is this.
Is the picture Lunch atop a Skyscraper real?
The photograph isn't even a candid shot of a once lunch event. It was really all a publicity stunt by the Rockefeller Center to advertise their new RCA building, which was almost finished. The men did really sit on the beam and chow down, but it wasn't their idea, and certainly not a regular occurrence.
Why are boomers so quick to jump on fake pictures and claim they work hard
Is just me. But the strangest and nicest thing is that nobody had their phones out. Just enjoying the experience.
They were so disoriented that they dropped their phones!
This isn't recreating anything. Those were brave construction workers building amazing skyscrapers. These are not.
What an insight
Very on brand with how people capture 'candid' experiences these days.
I’m pretty sure the original photo was staged as well.
Any info?
Read in Wikipedia. Lunch atop a skyscraper.
Photo was for a publicity campaign promoting skyscrapers.
@@arfriedman4577 thanks, safe holiday you and others.
@@shatner99 thank you. Many blessings.
I get anxious and palms wet with sweats seeing those brave true men without safety harnesses
Hasta los pies me tiemblan.. que miedo.
As a proud union ironworker I disapprove
What an experience. Where is this?
The Rockefeller Centre.
Men builded this world. Thank you all the men❤
*built*
That is awesome. At first,I thought “ my goodness- they’re crazy!!!” This increased my fear of heights to have them sitting there on that beam, knowing that they might fall off. I didn’t see the seats belts. Afterwards, that looked pretty cool!!!
There are seat belts. Girl on the far left is easily seen at her waist. Thankfully lol
My friend is an ironworker and has that classic pic above his fireplace! Lots of pride in that job!
So i cant do that much respect for those men who built that building 😮😮😮😮
The contrast in time is unbelievable.
Salute to the men who built those huge structures many years ago... ❤
A person who's dear to me, one of her distant family members is in that picture, it's a small world bc i loved that photo for years before i knew this person
Im gonne lile this clip because of the old photos amazing humans mad respect to them 💪
Salute to the hardworking men
They need to make a "how did they get out on the beam to sit and have lunch experience". Those men were some of the hardest on the planet. Respect, as a man I can say for sure there's no way I could do that job even with modern equipment.
I used to picture frame and always loved that photo
Just throw my pint of whiskey in my lunch box, I don't need a sandwich!
About a dozen pints of whiskey for me. But wait, then I will be too dizzy and staggering and I will definitely Fall!
Those were brave men taken risk walking those steel and working and sit down
The cities was build hard workers
Just watching this makes me feel like I'm falling over!😮😮😮😮😮
They should have put this thing on the other building. The taller one over there and then made it go over the edge. That'll get your heart pumped in.
One World Trade Center
Best experience ever 👌🏼 it’s part of the History too 🙏🏼🇺🇸
The Native American steel works did it in bare feet. They were apart of just about every sky scrapper but that's not really noted in the history books.
Those men were tougher than the steel 💪💙 legendary
Was anyone on that during the 4.8 we just had? Friends in NYC & Boston were actually evacuated, so…
Can't even beat the original hands down to those brave and tough man
This just triggered my fear of heights like no other. I don’t understand how I can have a fear of heights watching my TV or my phone.
The picture I have saw so many times in my life before the internet. it’s seems spiritual!
My stomach sinks just looking at those Brave Men😮