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0:42 Back then, construction workers and bricklayers wore suits with ties to work. Guess if you're going to fall to your death, at least you're prepared for your funeral.
Well, that building may be gone already, but I am almost 100% certain, after comparing today's Google Street photos, from 4:22-4:50, that's Union Square and in that block (North block) is the Barnes & Noble building (finished in 1881). The two adjacent buildings are gone, but the leftmost still exist as well. so that building being built may be gone, because there is a modern building with a Best Buy store, unless that high-rise is the other building next to Whole Foods (Broadway and 14th) whose first 5 floors are renovated but the rest could be over 100 years old. The avenue to the right of that Barnes & Noble block was called Fourth Avenue, now it is called Park Avenue South.
I think it's 821 Broadway. Completed in 1907. Matches the time. You can also see the corner feature of 841 Broadway in the same scene. Comes from a longer film (V-1433 on screenocean), this was just a segment cut out of it. Can't believe I took the time to research this. Not even from the US.
Summary 840 Broadway Building A highly intact 12-story Renaissance Revival style commercial building, 840 Broadway was designed by the noted architect Robert Maynicke for developer Henry Corn in 1899-1901. The building originally housed small manufacturing and wholesale businesses, largely associated with the garment industry, through the mid-20th century. The ground floor was occupied by a succession of clothiers, including the Thompson Company, Lester & Company, and Goodyear Waterproof Company, manufacturers of raincoats and related apparrel. 840 Broadway was converted to a mixed-use cooperative in the 1970s. 840 Broadway is a notable example of a high-rise store-and-loft building built during a period of large-scale commercial development in New York City, particularly in the Union Square area. This development was initiated as a result of the introduction of elevators, electricity and steel framing at the turn of the 20th century, which made tall buildings more cost effective to build. In anticipation of the IRT subway opening in 1904 there was a surge of new construction north of the traditional loft districts of Lower Manhattan, which made rents more affordable for manufacturers and wholesale companies that moved to this stretch of Broadway. Born in Germany, architect Robert Maynicke (1848-1913) studied mechanics and mathematics at the Cooper Union in New York City. By 1873, he was employed by George B. Post, where he supervised the architecture firm’s work on early elevator buildings. Maynicke left Post’s office in
So someone decided to fill a little skit during a the building of a skyscraper. Probably with some of the workers while they are on their break. You know, pretending to through each other off the building lol. Love it
Just think that some people watching your videos could very well be staring at a great great relative that’s smiling,waiving or simply walking by and they don’t even know it! 🤯
@Thegame .Dev Imagine if they kept fist fights on that same floor after the building was complete. "Oh do you have a problem sir!?" "Hell yes I do! Lets take this up to the 32nd floor and solve this man to man!" * steps into elevator "32nd floor please bell hop" Bell hop: "Fist fights going up"
Your work is sublime!! Made me feel as though I was there with those gentlemen. Nice touch with the accompanying piano. All that was missing is popcorn. 🤭 Great skit at the end. I imagine that's what it was like watching the moving pictures of the 20s.
Fine to express admiration for their nerve, but lets also collectively decide that no one should have to work under unnecessarily dangerous conditions in a civilized society and always strive to improve conditions for the people working to keep it running.
@@eucherenkov Even if they had harnesses and helmets, they would never have worn any of it. Even today, a lot of people only wear the safety gear because they have to. If they can get away with taking it off, they do.
Back then, many men tried to put on a persona of toughness, and didn't try to show emotion or fear. Like it was a way to show that you were macho and a man. It is a very stupid way to behave, but it is what many used to do, and some still do. It stems, I think, from insecurity issues and/or being more afraid of going against societal expectations and thinking for one's self. Don't know if this is what is going on in this video with these men, but if you look at the older generations of men, say around 75 or older, many of them seem to think that a younger man is of less value to society unless he is working much of the time
1:05 Rohe & Brother was a meat packing business and had facilities in 547 & 549 W 35th, 533 - 541 W 36th and in 264 - 268 W 33rd Street. I guess from pictures I've found at the Libriary of Congress it is the last one here which is right at the same plot of today's Madison Square Garden. So I guess it's a building very close to Penn Station. But maybe it's just a commercial painted on a brick wall of another building.
There is no way I could be up that high working like that. My body and brain would would start trembling and becoming dizzy and petrified fear would have hold of me. Absolute no for me.
No choice back then for the average man. Do it or go hungry. Simple as that. And people will tell you we have it bad today. Yeah it could always be better, but it could be a lot worse.
Photos, film, video. Now a digital time capsule that can capture a brief moment in time for us to watch over 100 years later. Amazing really. Wish we had this technology in time of Atlantis or Ancient Egypt, or maybe we did 🤷🏻♀️
@@CloudSpirals I was once similar to him. I have Katt Williams to thank for showing me the rabbit hole. I have myself(Alice) to thank for taking the trip down. 10+ years later, and I'm still falling. He deserves just as much of an opportunity as I.
@@monteniggrianCRUSHER 99% of these old timey videos were staged in some way. The modern day equivalent is folks acting different when a camera is on them. It's a subconscious holdover from around this time period. The major difference is the "tricks" for "staged" modern day recordings (anything from videos, to TV, to movies) have become a lot more subtle.
Please keep uploading more quality content from the late 19th and early 20th centuries - no further than 1920 because if I wanted to see World War 2 videos, there are tons of channels for that.
This obviously is play acting but what interests me is what is happening in the background on the streets below. I believe this is 1906 because there are very few automobiles.
Increíble!!!!... cómo ha cambiado el mundo y nuestras vidas, y tan solo un siglo poco más o menos. Hoy sin máquinas eso es ya imposible, salvo casos extraños. Pongamos a un trabajador de hoy en día en esas circunstancias y ni en broma lo hece. Por supuesto que la seguridad tiene que existir, pero en aquellos tiempos la vida humana tenía otro valor, el que éstos grandísimos señores tenian. El precio de ellos eran impagable y nunca nunca será suficiente el pago que merecian.
(As for World War II, Thailand was with Japan. - Allied with Japan) (Later it was allied with the United States. - Thailand was the winner of World War 2 together with the United States.
They didn’t even have work clothes their suits and ties were it lol fuck it. Dude got on a 3 piece on and a smooth derby screwing molten bolts in. Lol.
All I can say is, if all the steel erectors in NYC played the eejit like these men, we'd still be waiting on skyscrapers getting built at all!! :-) :-) :-)
I wonder if this just a dramatization for a silent movie ,the first clip seems to be real ,the rest not so much ,film would cost alot so filming a fight might no be worthwhile.
Construction work was unsafe unlike today but stealing pocket watches and picking fights with random people actually working has not changed in 116 years.
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