Guys Eating Lunch On A Beam

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.

Guys eating lunch on a beam.

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. The photograph was taken on september 20 1932 on the 69th floor of the rca building during the last months of construction. But most famously all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam their feet dangling 850 feet above the city s streets. Construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground at the building site of the rca building.

A few pretended to nap. Workers atop the 70 story rca building in new york s rockefeller center lunch on a steel beam. According to archivists the photograph was in fact prearranged. 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.

Capturing lunch atop a skyscraper. The famous photo of the new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam was taken during construction of the rca building at 30 rockefeller center in manhattan new york city. Some of the tradesmen tossed a football. 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.

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 image was a publicity effort.