Lunch atop a Skyscraper [1932]

wow talk about hights!
this is a verry nice picture

safety huh?
imagine something like this today…

i have a fear of heights….and literally even looking at this picture makes me cringe…..ridiculous photo

Same as ez… Brr… Nice photo.

I love this picture, I have it on my wall

I think one of these men is my great grandfather does any know names?

When men were men.

This is the modern version. Lattes, fafafels, and laptops.

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this is a tremendous photo. it has the depth and color balance and its just…wow!

Well, that’s just badass.

I’d be scared to move.

Who drew the short straw for being the furthest out…? : /

I bought this poster and had it framed for my ex-husband, who’s an ironworker. I think he thought I gave him the world. Years later and since our divorce and he still has it hanging on his wall. AWESOME PIC!!!

Great picture. Very Americana. I love it!!

Hard to believe, especially with the hazard of winds, certainly not computer generated.

omg! wouldn’t they be scared! :O those 2 men on the far left are just sitting talking like it is any other day! they r pretty stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1

I have a fear of heights and this photo scares me half to death. I cannot imagine doing this …

Well, you only live once. This was probably a pretty common thing for these guys. And they probably had no one to answer to. I love their nonchalance. What men!

This picture causes a bit of a misconception. The workers didn’t eat lunch like this regularly. Instead, one of the men had the idea that it would make for a good picture if they went out on the beam and pretended to each lunch. The photo is not spontaneous, it’s set up. This doesn’t necessarily take anything away from the picture, however.

We have this picture hanging up in our office. The worker on the far right is holding an EMPTY liquor bottle. You wouldn’t be able to get ME up there regardless of what you plied me with. I know, “it’s not the FALL that would kill you, it’s the sudden stop at the end”.

Forget bulging muscles and fast cars…

THESE ARE REAL MEN!! =)

That picture makes me feel sick, when i look at it i just picture myself looking down sat on that beam and I feel faint…

Wrong Lou, they ate like this on a daily basis, maybe not all in a row, but the did. it was “semi-staged” as the gathered a few around for more of an impact.

a man napping on the beam?!?!?! omg, one single wrong move and he’’s out!!! man how did they get off??

C’mon folks - this picture hangs on the wall of my local takeaway - a really large-size print of it and…it’s so clearly fake. The guys are cut out - the girder is on the floor. It’s not apparent when you see it this small but large - you can see how all their feet are at exactly the same level (bar one or two who have curled up or stretched out. Great classic idea, but as fake as anything in Photoshop (and yes you could do that back then, it’s called a pair of scissors!).

Ah, yes…the picture you see framed in 90% of Italian restaurants.

totally awesome!!! Now that was a fearless generation, those men had guts and honor, it makes me proud to be an American, thankyou… And to Lou, hey man it might have ben setup but it is what it is…