Lunch Atop A Skyscraper: The Story Behind The 1932 Photo | 100 Photos | TIME
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- We don't know their names, nor the photographer who immortalized them, but these men lunching 800 feet up show the daredevil spirit behind Manhattan's vertical expansion.
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Lunch Atop A Skyscraper: The Story Behind The 1932 Photo | 100 Photos | TIME
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I hear that the building steel was made from the same steel as their balls.
FOSGATEXLT 😂
OMG haha I'm dying
Nah man the workers werent willing to tell the higher-up pansies where to find metal that hard
They definitely have the balls to do this
FOSGATEXLT
That was a classic. Now will the rest of you just quit, your not at all funny
"Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.”
I will keep this in my mind. You're right
Dats hard
Ash1one Don here’s another one: “through action, a man becomes a hero. Through death a hero becomes a legend. Through time a legend becomes a myth. And by learning from the myth, a man takes action”
Rodrigo M. *im 14 and this is deep*
wantafanta01 yeah.. like Jim Crow and shit lol
Im a builder in the UK and have this photo on my wall at home. These men are a different league absolutely superb credit to the construction industry not known but never forgotten 👏
Bless people like you! Without you civilization don’t exist. Thank you 🙏🏼
Stop lying
Hail 🙋♂️ to our white 🐻❄️ European ancestors...they built the greatest civilization the world has ever known
@@mariocooldude9092 yes sir dont you ever forget it
I could not have said it better. This gives me chills and sweaty palms when I see them being so casual, just sitting up there, chatting and doing their job. Hats off to these extraordinary men of history.
Word can't describe a photographer a employee who work there . Nobody forgot them . They will always in our heart
Did that photo send a thrill up your leg and grab you by the balls?
up on those beams. poverty was their biggest fear. thats why they did it.
BIG LO aka the Great Depression
It's an awesome job too
BIG LO yea it’s true I work in construction up in Inglewood LA and we aren’t closed down, it’s Mandatory to show up
Aka the Big Sad
Big sad sounds cute
1932: Men climb skyscrapers and risk their lives to put food on their table for their family.
2019: Men climb skyscrapers so they can be famous on social media.
1932: they take a legendary photo
2019: they record their friends slipping of the edge of a skyscrapper and dying
Manuel Estacio it states in the vid it was done for publicity
There are still Ironworkers out there with massive nutsacks like these guys
@@dashboy4l yeah the picture was taken for that reason, but he/she is still right. They did for their family, they earned money from building this, their wages went to their families. We don't know their names and yet and idiot climes buildings to hang off it for Social Media likes and we know those idiots because we're on Social media is sad.
1932: youtube didnt exist
2019: people making dumb assumptions about people's hobbies without knowing anything about it at all
I'm an Italian boy and I'm working in many apartments around the center of Milan. Today, visiting an old woman's apartment, I was shocked when this old woman told me that the fourth man from the left was his father. She was so excited and proud of him. And I was amazed at how beautiful the history is.
If you can find out and supply his name that would identify one of them.
They’ll never be forgotten. Their legacy is the amazing structure they built.
Ovo su radnici iz Jugoslavije.
@@banebakic Ozbiljno?
@@yamil.343
White men are amazing
Thousands of years from know they’ll wonder how we built our structures like we do the pyramids. They’ll see these men
Two things:
1. No hardhats
2. They're eating ACTUAL home cooked food
Magaret A. kr
I dont understand?
Yeah a hard hat would do a ton
Miles Ralls hard hats are to keep you from getting hit by a falling tool, or hitting your head against something and even knocking yourself out... They do a lot dumbass.
IMxYOURxDADDY that has nothing to do with my comment. I simply was telling him what hard hats protect from, as he said they'd be useless in such a job.
Just imagine if it rained...
Larry Michael 😂😂😂LOL
Larry Michael rainout
RAINDROP SMOKIN THOT BOX THICC TACC
Or wind
They wouldn’t have cared
I know the name of the man sitting on the far right. His name was Gusti Popovič. He came from Slovakia. He sent his wife a postcard with this famous photo on which he wrote: don't worry my love you can see me with a bottle. 😄
That’s awesome where did you hear this
Awh my country 💗
They had nerves of steel and I admire their ability to construct these skyscrapers with no safety wear or helmets. One guy who looked like a photographer had a suit on taking a photo of the men resting as they eat their lunch. Truly remarkable.
*Anxiety has joined the chat*
@@user-hl9er9bk6y You wouldn't get it!
*Pusyness has left the chat*
Balls have left the chat
Isacc Newton's Law of Gravity has joined the chat
r/woooosh
When grandparents said things were hard back then, they weren’t lieing
Things are still hard today.
Welch'sBeanJuice naw we’re spoiled today
@@asher2297 You might be spoiled but it doesn't even take a second to realize that life is incredibly difficult for 99% of people.
Welch'sBeanJuice we r spoiled cuz we got technology to do everything, and I’m also not saying 100% of people, I’m just talking about majority
@@asher2297 Right the billions of starving people in Africa and Asia have technology that can gather food for them. Even here in the US there are tons of people living under the poverty line and do whatever they can to support their children. In today's world the majority of people live hard lives and that is an indisputable fact.
What makes these pictures even scarier is the fact that they aren’t wearing any harnesses. Unbelievable courage these men have.
The hero and the coward are the same person.
Thank you captain obvious
Shoes were notoriously bad in that era. Can you imagine walking around in uncomfortable shoes up there!
RIP real men.
Can't believe the world went from this to what we're witnessing today.
Right???
Workplace safety rules?
@@jeffreyjohnson7359 no. We went from that to grown ass men themselves women and grown ass women calling themselves men and even worse.
that pic would of gotten a lot of likes on instagram.
it would've been classed as photoshop
LMAO WHO BUILT THIS😂😂😂😂
It would have, indeed
SonPlaysMinEcraft 😂
MEEE
I can't even look at these photos without getting that anxious feeling in my gut.
Dol l I 2nd that!!!! Not enough $ on earth to get me to do that! And think abt their salary or hourly wage in 1930..WOW! Brave men!
Same.
Same here
That anxious feeling in your gut makes you stronger at those heights. The Brain and Body work differently under these conditions.
Lo mismo digo!
You can tell these men had more of a brotherhood and more courage than most people. I think this is truly inspiring seeing everyone sitting on that beam, each of them smiling and saying we have made something amazing.
You're a muslim 🤢🤢🤢
@@Paapi_purush nope my mother is American and my dad is Indian and Irish, along on my mom side is Polish, Italian, German, and Mexican. So thank you but you just insulted a German too and this isn’t even my real name on TH-cam so thank you asshole.😂
@@Paapi_purush to add on born and raised in America my dad also is so you have no say, what about you Lavdu? Who gave you a ridiculous name like that, you really don’t want to mess with me.
> victoriartrojan5742 Precisely, Victoria; I was thinking the same thing. Teamwork. The 'Empire State Building' has been named as one of the Seven Wonders of the Modern World by the American Society of Civil Engineers. It was completed at record speed after only 13.5 months on April 11th; 1931, and officially opened on May 1, 1931 - that's quite an accomplishment!
Vc é muito linda. Gostaria de conhecer um brasileiro? 😮
We might not know their names
but they will be remembered
forever 👍💖👏
The guy in the middle:
*I have to pee.*
Dude's next to him
"Whip it out"
He knew Trump will own them later 🤣
🏃🏻♂️💨💨
Guy Next to the middle:
I have to take a shit
Was thinking the same thing😂😂
oops sorry excuse me ah my bad oh dear sorry
Anybody else having anxiety issues watching this?
My stomach is doing flips and flops and I am sitting on the couch. Wow.
ME!!!!
No shit
Loads
Absolutely!!😳😳😳
As a former scaffolding worker I know, understand and salute their pain, their joy and their courage. Unique job which not many can manage. Hard one and sometimes very rewarding one. I still keep some awesome photos that are, I can easily say, second to none.
I appreciate this photo being a construction worker now, everyday I go to work and see a different place as it gets to be a finished work of art that many men and women pull together and get done. Thank you
Their balls contain more steel than all skyscrapers in existence combined. Odd that such a flimsy beam in comparison could hold up under such weight. It must be magic or CGI.
urmaker u so stupid dont know shit about metal
Ea zγ it's called a joke, maybe?
Julius Fiorentino i d be trippin then sorry
I would have thought saying their balls contain steel would have been the giveaway. :P
CGI in 1932?
God, my legs turn to jello just looking at this pic. I like heights and thrills, but I doubt I could ever do this.
candiigurl7893 agreed, but it's a hell of a view up there I'd totally be down or up in this case
Lol me too
candiigurl7893 I would have fainted and fallen 😂
candiigurl7893 I'd shit myself asap!
candiigurl7893 -->>> me too, I had to look away for a moment.
Honestly, everyone in these pictures (including the photographers themselves), deserves the spotlight of the many greatest humans I have seen in history to date!
I am so glad that these pictures existed because they have a sense of connectedness that I can have with these fellow humans who've lived decades before me.
It also goes to show that at the end of the day...we are all human beings - and that is far more fascinating and "awesome" than anything, really!
Imagine the men who built Rome or Greece or the pyramids
I salute these men for putting their life on the line to make one of the most iconic buildings of the world, right here in my city. A structure so old yet so modern that represents the city of New York to the fullest extent.
I can't even go downstairs in the night without the lights on.
Me too
😂
Of course you don't, idiot. How would you see the stairs in the dark.
What does this have to do with the video??
Pha.x he’s comparing the balls of steel of the men in the video to himself.
Them: *smoking on top of a skyscraper*
Me: *comfortably laying in my bed and having small heart attacks only watching this*
🤣🤣🤣
ExCtly my thoughts
kkk. we became toooooooooooooooooo weak
@@eliseuhackbarth7003 indeed we did and I can speak for my self..
😂😁😂
The courage that they had speaks volumes when your hands start sweating just by watching them at work. I would be clinging to one of those side beams hanging over the city streets with a death-grip even if I were wearing a solid secure safety harness.
Every time I see these pics, I feel something inside my lower abdomen that I cannot describe, it is a terrible fear to heights...... NO WORDS...... MY RESPECT TO THESE IRON MEN!!!!
Fear wasn't invented until the 1940s
Not for the poles ;)
Because there has only been 1 world war. And just 1 war involving the U.S
1960s
riikerman have to have a balance. Too much common sense means you take zero risks
Too little fear can mean early death
Gotta 50/50 split it to gain the best results
Those boys stepping off those landing crafts on Omaha beach in 44 were fearless, I'd say fear came in the 50s, maybe
How did the rail not break from the sheer weight of their balls!!
Feminists castrated them cause they too white and male
I'm surpised they didn't get rashes on their balls from dragging it all day at work !!
Joke ruined. Thanks right wingers😔
Can ya'll stop making shit political
because their balls a gravitational pull
Can you imagine that if cameras and video recorders had not existed at that time, we would never have known this impressive image and the courage of these men, as well as the work of these brave photographers who risked their lives to leave us these beautiful memories of the past. Thanks for sharing the video.
Makes you wonder about the thousands of unrecorded history events we never seen
My Grandfather, my uncle’s, and father were iron workers. Sad thing is no one knows how dangerous and hard these men work and still put their lives on the line
What a shame, no one knows their names. What courage they had!
@@1meancyberbully329bruh no it isn't that's possible
also there is a guy name Robert Halleun who claimed that one of the guys was him and this was back in 1966 a few years after he retired.
1MeanCyberbully uh, plenty of steelworkers do this today though, of course with lanyards however. They take their feet on the bottom of the beam and use their legs to drag them forward while holding onto the top of the beam with their hands
@@1meancyberbully329 you smoothbrain lots of people can and have done this idiot
The man on the right side: GUSTI POPOVIČ from Slovakia (village Vyšny Slavkov
I can literally feel the sensation of falling backwards just looking at that picture.
😬🤕
u made me scream
Or forwards
My brain would make me do this.
Early depiction of how the camera man never dies
It is absolutely saddening that nobody knows these guys. I can only imagine the sacrifices they made from their families, I bet these guys were laughed at in their day for their profession. It's great to see how far we've came but also sad to see how society would put down guys like these back in the day. Thank you for all of your service!
> switchlite44 That you would suggest that these guys were laughed at is an awfully odd thing to say. And, where do you get the notion that the society at that time would "put them down"? I'd say the fact that you would say such inordinate things is more of a sign of where your head is at, not everyone else's. "Back in the day" people believed in working for a living - a day's work in exchange for a day's pay. Men worked hard for a living and were proud of earning money for their hard work so they could support their families - it's what people did, and they were grateful to get the work. This is a quality that many people today don't even fathom.
@@ofthedifferencesociety put men like them down today calling them opressives while using their services. They would replace this pic with blcks and girls saying they were opressive for not letting women earn a living there
Are you suggesting that workers of today should gladly do this kind of work without any safety measures (straps, hard hats, etc.) just to have the 'pleasure' of working like dogs to build something for some gazillionaire and be thankful for the opportunity? Kudos to the workers who did the work. Hell and damnation to the ruthless bastards who put them in such peril with no thought for their safety.@@ofthedifference
@@normanacree1635 It would behoove you to read my comment again and realize that it was a response to the commenter named switchlite44. I said nothing suggesting that workers of today should gladly do this kind of work without safety measures. I conveyed the value of being employed to do a good day's work in exchange for receiving a day's pay - something that I was grateful for being hired to do. Too many people in our society today would rather collect money from the government rather than working for a living .This has nothing to do with working without safety measures.
There’s no way I could survive 5 mins much less one day up there. My admiration to these great man.
FACTS!!!!!!
Bruh I would have fell off looking down lol real chop
@@ernestboykin3rd706 no worries, pictures is fake
Just think about the fact that fatalities were almost a daily basis in skyscraper building.
Edit: not apparently lmao
It's a perspective thing nothing else
I am also amazed the steel beam did not collapse from carrying all those massive steel balls at once
You're a little late on the joke hundreds made before you
FatalFinality you did him dirty💀
FatalFinality for sure thousands
Wow ...Good one buddy
@@UndeadPharaoh LOL
I’ve looked at that picture hundreds of times and I’m always impressed.
But just now I wondered about how windy it would or could be up there.
And then I passed out from fear.
Hard as nails!
No safety nets, no harness. Finally, the original OG
*when ur job is dangerous but u gotta get the bread*
*Faint Stalin laughing in the distance*
@@imperialguardsman5929 I like everything about you.
@@imperialguardsman5929 oh yeah yeah
Uhm... you do no that just cuz this was over 100 years ago they still got payed in money rite? lol. not bred....
The man's gotta do, what the man's gotta do.
Not that they needed it but those guys get my Respect.
ceewats wow 501 likes and 1 reply
What about the mowhak indians that build the totum pole
These guys made America great!
Yes, they did and they worked hard for the little money they got paid. Barely any safety equipment to even speak of. People today won't even cut the grass or weed whack unless they have goggles on and leg protectors, or they'll report employer to safety board lol
serbia991 What about it? It's not dangerous making totem poles.
For years, I thought that the photo of the eleven workers having their lunch on the beam must have been trick photography or careful editing, because I knew that there were a lot of publicity photos taken. When I saw photos of the photographers balancing on the beams, reality hit me between the eyes. In these days of health and safety regulations, it seems incredible that these workers put their lives at risk on a daily basis in the lifetime (just) of my parents.
My grandfather was a bricklayer on the Empire State Building he died some years ago but he was talented ❤
Hard times create strong men. Strong men create good times. Good times create weak men. And, weak men create hard times.
LetsGoToMarsMan genius comment, I hope that's your original comment.
samy way It's not
So we're clearly in the "weak men" period right now.. Nothing but soyboy cucks roaming the streets of New York!
LetsGoToMarsMan It's an constant cycle.
samy way it’s a quote search it up
Imagine being the dude on the far left cant get off that beam unless the other 7 move out the way first
MrFlux Pavilion That’s why he’s lighting a smoke to calm his nerves
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
That’s what I was thinking! That’d need to be me; I eat ridiculously slowly, so I’d just cause a blockage if I was at the front of the beam. 😅
@MrFlux Pavilion I can see your point, but there are actually 10 other men on that beam beside the guy your talking about.
Doonsbury r/woooooosh
Working construction my whole life, I have this picture framed in my office, it doesn't need words
I’ve had this photo framed in my office for years. I love the detail.
Am I the only one that is saddened on how much these men risked their lives just to feed their families?
It was the great depression, you did what you had to do. They look pretty happy they have jobs at all.
@@jasoncutshaw8401 you've prolly done nothing even close to what these guys did
Well that was the whole thing about weighing risks was lack of options starve and freeze to death on the street or risk your life at the top no safety net? People who never had to make choices like that don't know what tough times really are if their choice is just off some restaurant menu.
Yes
@@hearsomeevil9199 says this to someone they have never met whilst also hiding behind a keyboard and sitting in a room they almost have certainly never left. Honestly why don't you open your horizon a bit you spanner.
My mans on the right had a pint of whiskey for lunch lmao
Derty Hairy must be Irish
he was slovak. only man in photo to truly legitimately be identified. not irish, but eastern european slavic man. his wife give him bottle.
shot of courage to be up there
I wouldn’t want to get drunk up there
Derty Hairy 😂😂😂
My knees were buckling just watching this fantastic video. What brave men, I couldn't do this job for any money in the world. 🇬🇧🇹🇷🇬🇧🇹🇷
WORTH THEIR WEIGHT IN GOLD . NERVES OF STEEL 🙏🙏🙏
So strange. I've seen this photo dozens of times and never once thought about the photographers risking their lives, as well.
That has to be the most badass picture of all time
Yes. A lot of other famous photos, you need the backstory to put it into context. A lot of other influential photos are shockingly famous for depicting human tragedy, suffering, violence, cruelty. But this photo carries its' own narrative, it doesn't need any explanations. This photo displays unreserved nerve in spite of the sprawl of social anxiety. It shows that the common man can achieve tremendous heights on the balance of character and fortitude.
more than "the moon landing"?
@@jondoe562 yeah the moon landing was probably more badass
This picture should be dubbed og'z of the 1930's SMH. U talk about having a set as big as the Whitehouse these guys had them real talk.
The bas ass picture of all time is Pablo Escobar in front of the White House
These men are real men... not gangbanger, not pimps, not fame seeker obsessors.. real men who work for their living to get through life. To provide for their Loved ones. To take responsibility of work needed to be done. These are real men.
LumberJack dnt forget not opioid addicted idiots that are slowly breeding themselves out of existence.
LumberJack 💯👌
The irony
IRON
These real men were killed at rates unprecedented from falling because of terrible safety procedures. Don’t glorify this.
I have the upmost respect for these men , it was a hard job they had to do day in day out and they did it with such grace . Thanks for sharing . Cheers 🇨🇦
Humanity is better off when good men take productive risks. Do not be sad for them, do not shy away. Be proud.
Apparently, the first person from the right is a slovakian man, Gustáv (Gusti) Popovič. He sent to his wife Mariška a postcard with this photograph on which he wrote, "Don´t you worry, my dear Mariška, as you can see I'm still with bottle. Your Gusti." Now this photograph is decorating their grave.
Oh that would’ve put her mind to rest! 😳
Bullshit
SLOVAKIA IS THE BEST
Americans back then: I can build a sky scraper without shedding a single drop of sweat
Americans now: Whaddya mean imma not allowed in the walmart
🤣 "Allowed in the Walmart"
eVoLuTiOn
Fornax it’s evolving. Just backwards.
@@DIYDISASTERZ i do want to point out that gen z has no part in this and therefore is the best generation for having patience.
Plenty of sweating up on the iron , the Red Iron heats up like a stove
Absolutely amazing, incredible opportunity and experience for all concerned. Their grandchildren must,ve heard this tale of construction woe & adventure many times over, how did they walk across , sit down, get back up, their muscle control and sense of balance is astounding athleticism.
I really loved the narration. So beautifully it captures the story, gave me goosebumps.
I got sweaty hands alone from watching this.
Superborrrd
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Superborrrd 😯😯😴😴👚👚🐮🐮 ooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooolllllolllllooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooob xb b 😲
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They had more guts than the people in the next 50 years
Prasad Kharat As a millennial, I can confirm that. This was the greatest generation.
The Explorer no it was not, just because they worked without safety equipment?
Prasad Kharat Not really considering in the "next 50 years" was world war 2 which they probably went to fight in along with many millions morr
Prasad Kharat You know this was in the 30s right?
Prasad Kharat they did it for money. A man does everything for money and survival
I'm sitting on a chair at work on a concrete floor and watching this is making my stomach roll. Bravery doesn't cover it. These men were unbelievable. RIP to them all
Did that work since 1969 and loved everyday IW#5 ❤
That’s wayyyy tooo high
Raul Gutierrez Yeah, I bitch when Im up 30ft running my over head copper pipes let alone that. Haha crazy.
Raul Gutierrez, it is never too high
As soon as I'm off the toilet I'm gonna be the same
What's the point of putting innocent people's lives at risk for a tall building!!! SMH
You need to cut it
I can't even look down in our double decker bed..
Alice in The Land of Dawn Who’s “our” I don’t have a double decker bed. You mean “my double decker bed”
Brick Owens They probably mean a personal being 😶😶 Family, Boyfriend/Girlfriend, Cat, etc.
Purple Alpha624 Yeah, i need a whole entire twin/full size bed just for my cat.
Purple Alpha624 cat would be most realistic
Hi fellow mobile legender
I’m an Local 22 Ironworker and those are the true cowboys of the sky. They had zero tolerance for fear. I have a large print of the picture framed next to my dinner table where my family eats. You nailed it at 3:05 they had pride in their work.
🇯🇲🇯🇲 these pictures are recognized in Jamaica. These men are a prime example of courage and skills 👏
That picture is stressing me out
I'd have my arms and legs rapped around that beam tight pleading for HELP!!! convinced I'm about to fall. I have terrible balance.
Same
Just wouldn't do that shit. They probably made $1 an hour. I'll gladly make a sandwich
Me tooo
one word for these brave men: RESPECT
Update: Thank you for seconding, guys. I didn't know how powerful a word was to the society until today. 💙
I certainly could not have done it
Kenny James A. Cubero that's the way things were done then no alternative this was the norm
Just like keapernick🙏✊
chito Im naw Kap’s fake
CRAZY*
These men are totally unbelievable, i get dizzy standing on the pavement, i got a jigsaw of the picture, just fantastic.
Apáink veszélyes,kitartó munkáit tisztelet és megbecsülés övezi.Köszönjük nektek.
Whatever the back story, it's still one of the most iconic photos of all time.
Ok bud, of modern history no doubt
Respect to people who worked on building the Empire State Building.
The photo is Rockefeller Center.
@@JPKnapp-ro6xm
Yeah but the point being the ESB is considerably taller then Rockerfeller
I'm a retired Ironworker of 20 years and it was a blast working up on those high places.
The trust they had for one another is awesome 👍.
Some individuals did die tragically. There were always men waiting below to replace them. That's the truth folks. CMJ
How often was there a fatality any idea?
I'm not sure Mr.Dante. I believe there is a memorial plaque with their names at 30 Rock. CMJ
40% died. Like 20% became disabled.
Really. You sure? A lot of people will see your reply Mr. Slug.
Life is tough
Anybody else watching without socks on
Ayyyyy me
Damn I am
me right now lol
Me??XD
Watching this in school
Thank you gentlemen. I’m a born and raised New Yorker. Proud to say I’m from Brooklyn New York. Look at that city every day and it’s a thing of beauty. And the city is still growing. With even bigger skyscrapers. But watch these guys put their lives at risk to build New York City man that’s dope. Thank you gentlemen I can’t say it enough thank you…
Yeah I lived in east village for over 15 years an I never got sick of the view coming back to the city
These are outstanding photos. My Grandfather would tell of his time on high steel construction in the early days of the highrise. He even worked in Dallas as an much older man in the nineteen eighties.
1932 : Men eating lunch 800 ft from the ground
2019: People claiming 800 Genders
IRON HOUSE good god what have we come to
Times change you fucking cisgender idiot!
Xccrx Mothapo lol
IRON HOUSE You seem ignorant.
lolllll
I think it's kind of cool they're not named, because they represent all of the workers, not just those individuals
you make a good point actually
Very very very very good point
My thoughts exactly
@@njaewin have a good week bro
Agreed good point!
I will always love this video… these are the guys who helped build this world around us today and sadly society thinks so little of these kinds of people and workers… nothing but respect from me 💯✌🏽
I've got this picture on one of my walls.... enjoyed listening to this...
Great Depression was a hell of a motivating factor in these guys' reasoning.
Caleb Mayfield Are you implying that he’s implying?
@Caleb Mayfield Great Depression was when America went very financially worse.Jobs were almost nkn existent.Banks closed.Business closed.It was a finanicial disaster.So these guys to put some food on the table for their families took dangerous jobs like these
I'm pretty sure the Great Depression happened during the 30's
@@sirloon3063 wasn't the empire states building made in the 30s?
Oh crap, you're right
I would 100% get paranoid and drop
same
I would drop but do 100 front flips and end up surviving
talk about hash tag me too
@@MichaelP-ke1tm the only thing you drop is your pacifier.
@ you are gay
The skyline 90 years ago is very impressive
I started as an Ironworker apprentice in '73 and I heard a Journeyman tell a young guy "hell boy I've been further off the ground than you've been away from home".
If someone started to fall, he would naturally try to grab the guy next to him. Dominoes.
That's what I was literally thinking haha
Shit would be crazy
BRUHH I LAUGHED TOO HARD AT THIS 😂
I'm an ironworker I'll go in the hole trying to save my brother with me up there. Not even hesitate
I swear thats what i was thinking
The jobs men and women did back then to support thier families, without safety equipment and life insurance respect to all of them. 😮
CHERISE SCANTLEBURY it’s was only men doing these dangerous jobs. Women were at home or doing something like working at a restaurant
Jacob Greeson you don't know that, women had jobs in the industrial and commercial sector. Women worked just as hard as men to support their families, especially the men who where foreigners and had to leave their common-law wife/wife in their country to work abroad, in most cases the wife had to work to also help provide for their children while their common-law husband's /husband's work abroad.
CHERISE SCANTLEBURY sorry but it’s a fact. Stay at home women vs hard working men. Deal with it
Jacob Greeson if you're talking about the females in your family, well then that explains your perspective. All women didn't stay home.😛
CHERISE SCANTLEBURY You don't know shit, women didn't have these jobs back then. Men built the world. Almost every brick you see is something that a man placed. The golden gate bridge is something men made. 99% of the construction made in the world is by men. Its a fact. Men are biologically more strong and work dangerous jobs. While women biologically care for kids and make food. Sorry, but it's true. Now don't go spit bullshit and I want to see facts.
When I was a young boy in the 1960's,there was an urban myth that if someone dropped a sandwich from the top of the Empire State building it would crack the pavement (sidewalk) when it landed, such was the fame and admiration of this magnificent building and in those days it was still the world's tallest. Even though it no longer is the tallest, it will always be the tops to me.
"A true hero isn't the one that leaves its signature name engraved on the stone for everyone to know. A true hero is the one that leaves a true physical and emotional memory for the world to see and remember. For a person without humility... will never reach eternity." -D
"It's sad that we don't know the names of these men"
In a way, it allows them to become Everyman, without race, creed, culture or language dividing them. Almost any immigrant can look at that picture and identify with at least one of the men, and in that way, it forms a constant ideal of the national image, and what the US was aspiring to at that time.
Even in 1932, this was sensational, and since then we have only become less determined in our focus to grow, drive and improve ourselves and more focussed on personal identity and wealth.
Goddamn become a poet
Wow what a great point of view to look at it. Especially in times like these when we need it
I wish but sadly people are all too happy to go "I don't see any of them being literally black so then they must all be white"
As if there is no ambiguity about race what so ever, Today no less! after being an interracial couple being free for some generations and we're more racially mixed than ever before, people are totally comfortable assuming based only on skin tone. As if it doesn't actually matter what we are, troubles me every time
No it was more like this “maybe there was a reason why there names weren’t kept or why they didn’t bother to give their names because maybe we all can find a little of ourselves in each of these great men”
Well said.
These men had more courage than I've seen. Soldiers, men at war, they also are people who defy fear, they don't accept fear. They just accept their missions and do them without blinking. Wow!
Unlike most men in 2022!!
this generation is to soft
And no politican cares
@@veravaladez1525 nah, hundret millions work hard in the eastern hemisphere today but no one cares, even in the western hemisphere millions of people work hard, no one cares...
@@veravaladez1525 Believe me, there are many courageous people in 2022. It's just that in the last 50 there was much less room for heroism. You know, easy times make weak people, weak people make times hard, and hard times make strong people, and strong people make times easy...
I have been to the top and was impressed, but this video and Christine"s narrative is simply amazing, I get a physical reaction watching these workers, their lack of safety equipment and their risk. This happened when America was great...
Angels amongst men building our cities