Guys Eating Lunch On A Beam

According to archivists the photograph was in fact prearranged.

Guys eating lunch on a beam.

The photograph depicts eleven men eating lunch seated on a girder with their feet dangling 256 meters 840 feet above the new york city streets. The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch seated on a girder with their feet dangling 840 feet 260 meters above the new york city streets. A few pretended to nap. The image was a publicity effort.

The photograph was taken on september 20 1932 on the 69th floor of the rca building during the last months of construction. But lunch atop a skyscraper has come to represent the country s resilience especially on labor day. But the most iconic of these photographs is no doubt the one of several workers eating lunch on a construction beam hovering hundreds of feet in the air with no obvious signs of worry. It was attached to a copy of lunch atop a skyscraper and in it glynn claimed that his father and uncle in law both from south galway were two of the men on the beam that day.

Capturing lunch atop a skyscraper. Workers atop the 70 story rca building in new york s rockefeller center lunch on a steel beam. By mary fichter in culture september 23 2013 everybody knows that black and white photograph of construction workers sitting on a suspended steel beam men eating lunch smoking cigarettes and. The image of the 11 workers perched on a beam 69 floors above manhattan eating lunch sharing banter and lighting cigarettes is one of the world s most reproduced.

Some of the tradesmen tossed a football. Construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground at the building site of the rca building.