New York City 'Beam Experience' invites visitors to recreate iconic 'Lunch Atop a Skyscraper' photo 

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True but today's money is worthless since the value has been nonstop redistributed and extracted by centralized entities since then. Now our economy is a cheap gimmick, like all the other national narratives of being the envy of the world, now hollowed out by the same centralized folks inconvenienced by such decentralized integrity and wellbeing.

Were they paid?

Nah, people were paid better back in those days. Strong unions 💪🏼

I looked into that years ago and don’t remember specifics but these constructions workers were paid roughly double the minimum wage of 1932.

They thought it was brave as well, which is why they staged that photo, lol

Sure 😃😊 Men stuff 💪🏼💪🏼

Thank you... We act like we've changed over the years. ​@@ATSaale

@@MitchellPierson so youre claiming evolution is a myth? Stop forcing your conservative dangerous views on everyone!

They risked their life's with no safety 🦺 on

Tell us his great stories 😊

Wow！ Thank you for sharing the story. You've met the LEGEND!!!

richardoconnor7112: So, which man in the photo was 'him'? Would love to know. BTW, what a cool experience to have had. 👍

Veerrrrrry interesting as I know your lieing. But fun to pretend. Unless your saying he was a model?

It’s legendary 👏👏👏👏👏🙏👍🏼❤

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There was a platform 10 feet below them.

@user-rl7mt4gh3o Empire State Building? It was a Rockefeller center publicity stunt

They were posing for a picture. And its not just one picture. There are several of them. Its completely staged.

@@captain_context9991 yep

Why you intended pun ?

No they didn’t they had no common sense back then

Its photoshopped picture. They were sitting on the ground.

@@brianellis6880common sense didn’t get you the job and maintain it. The real world is not the one u think it is

@@stuckinperth actually it did, common sense has gotten me very far in life

The original photo was actually staged as a promotional piece/publicity stunt for RCA

Its a clown world 🌎 🤡

You’re paid what you’re worth. If you want to be worth more make yourself more valuable, make what you do more important

@@Arizona92869 She didn’t even act like one ?

Yup

Nah, they were just immigrants desperate for money.

It was actually staged

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Idk my cousin can do wheelies on his motorbike

​@@Pillboxingthat is cool, but not even close

Facts.

The high scalers that helped build the Hoover Dam were more brave.

Height.

Respect ❤

I guess Chicago , Dubai and Toronto had them too

​@@MusicismoreImportantGolden Gate Bridge, Hoover Dam, Eiffel Tower, Cristo Redentor... we could even throw in many ancient structures

Are you a bot?

Sold!!

Able to sell useless things and call it an experience= Genius

Right

They'll be sitting for quite a while if that structure somehow can't come down.

😂😂

I dont imagine it. I wish it with all my heart.

😂😂😂

Made me laugh 🤣

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I feel for you.. I was lineman and after seniority took a electric protection gig for NYC I.W... and watch a man fall 3 stories, bounced of a one level and hit the ground. Surreal he survived and did fire watch for structure wielders.. basically with arm in a cast.. tough group of men and women in that craft

I got nothing but respect for Iron workers. I used to want to do it but went with the electrican route

​@@jamesomahoney2181let's be real here. Not a lot of "women" in these fields

Dude your husbands a badass

So did he get workman's comp or what? Doesn't sound like a great job if it's that dangerous.

Facts

Newfoundlanders played a huge role at Ironwork in newyork as well

The Jay treaty in it's peak form

Cool 👍

Not only that, they were highly sought after by the contractor for their skills and payed better than the average steel worker.

I like how you think!😂

Very under rated comment

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Classic 😂👏👏👏👏 💯 Percent agree👌

I guess I wasn't the only one thinking they were about to get yeeted🫣

I'd like to see footage of them getting off of it. Nerve wrecking

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The _Iwo Jima_ flag raising photo and the starless sky moon landing shots were fake too. Don't believe anything you read and only half of what you see.

How did they get down off it tho??

Sick then, sick now

It was literally staged

The original photo was also staged…

​@@ambitiously_lol, what?

thats what they chose to do , respect!

Fear of heights was less common back then than it is today. So that’s why they were able to pose for the photo. The fear just wasn’t there.

​​​​@@LazyLizzy706 ​ They hired a lot of native people to work on the skyscrapers, because they had greater ease working at extreme heights. Typical men refused to go up there. "Iroquois ironworkers, especially the Mohawks, are legendary for their dizzying work in erecting skyscrapers and steel bridges. Mohawk men have walked and worked on nearly all of New York City's towering buildings, including the Empire State Building, the Chrysler Building, and Rockefeller Center." --Walking the Steel: Generations of Ironworkers They are called Skywalkers.

I know those tingles very well.

I am afraid of heights as well. Every time I see that photo, I get pains in my knees and a little bit of disorientation. I also receive pain in the knees when I see someone being injured. I thought I was a little bit weird until I was made to understand that I am an empath. I seriously have to monitor the kind of information that I take in because it can be overwhelming and exhausting at times. I’m no Tin Man, I feel everything!

It was staged.

Yes...do not like heights. Agree ❤

But I've seen entire videos of workers scaling these structures without any harness and a toolbag ​@@helloworld3943

It was staged picture. Stop giving every men praise for doing nothing but faking😂

@@eo0-g9j read it again

It was during the depression. A lot of men were very willing to risk their lives for a paycheck.

Yeah, that’ll be $50 thanks.

​@@rad1930😂😂😂❤

Well better than working on something that you’ll probably never live to see fully completed lmao

So cute and southern....indeed bless their hearts

​@@WatchFelineSpineidk I think I'd rather that than gimmicky tourist nonsense

And what about the women do do the same? Single mothers don’t get credit

People

@@giraffewhiskers2045building skyscrapers?

​@@giraffewhiskers2045 wtf are you talking about. You can't give man any credit for crying out loud? There were no women in the pic. If the video was about women and people said bless all the women doing whatever the video was about... I wouldn't pipe up saying what about the men that fought and died in all the wars. Get outta here

@@giraffewhiskers2045well never saw you in that old old old picture of the Building the sky scrapers in New York

They were so disoriented that they dropped their phones!

There are seat belts. Girl on the far left is easily seen at her waist. Thankfully lol

And women. ☺

You mean the slaves?

​@@PauIdenino😂😂😂😂😂

​@@PauIdeninoWhat load of bs no women climbed and built towers

@@KyVisualsslaves were building the high rises? Weren’t slaves only used to build some railroads but mostly used in agriculture?

Me too!

Me three!

Took the words out of my mouth….. nope naw nah negative ALL THOSE 😂😂

Me 2!

There’s a large glass window behind them

Yessir. I'm no iron worker but while in the Navy, I had to chip and paint the stacks while hanging in a bosun chair... good times.

Is the picture Lunch atop a Skyscraper real? The photograph isn't even a candid shot of a once lunch event. It was really all a publicity stunt by the Rockefeller Center to advertise their new RCA building, which was almost finished. The men did really sit on the beam and chow down, but it wasn't their idea, and certainly not a regular occurrence.

Reminds me of that tragedy.

​@@elliotkeil6063I didn't even know he was sick

​@elliotkeil6063 is that the tragedy when the government blew up two towers and another one to hide trillions of dollars ?

Lol

Who cares

The OGs couldn't sue for unsafe working conditions. Tourists can sue.

It’s almost like we’ve progressed into a more sensible world or something

@@Threecharacterhandleright like why are people shaming these tourists for not putting their lives at risk

They also didn't have lawsuits back then. How about some common sense about present day reality over your fantasy

The original was a staged photo and if they fell nothing happened

We should just get rid of museums

That’s NYC for you

How a fake picture can document something lol

@@EvanWerewolf exactly 😂 it was literally staged for THEIR SAFETY and to promote their work.

Exactly! This is disrespect toward dying labor immigrants from Europe!

something about being paid less than a dollar a day makes you not really care about whether or not you live or die

They were casual because it was staged. Look it up.

​@@TheRandompaintMaybe that particular photo was staged, ...but the real work of building infrastructure in NYC and elsewhere was extremely dangerous

@@nataliandreapowell1420 ngl I was disappointed when I learned of it

A man gotta eat

They were posing for a picture. And its not just one picture. There are several of them. Its completely staged.

​@@captain_context9991The original guys were still 850 ft off the ground.

@@asherrogers2687 Oh, sure... But they also had a solid floor just below them. Out of shot. JUST like these people have in their modern recreation of the shot. They were very familiar with trick photography even back then. This was a media stunt to promote a return to industry and prosperity after the economic crash of the late 20s.

Mind-blowing.

You know the photo was staged right?

@@TheRandompaint What photo, the original? You are aware that men used to walk on steel beams, many stories high, with no safety harnesses or ropes, to build NYC, correct?

@@FloatingThroughTheRealm does that change the fact that the iconic photo was staged? No.

@@TheRandompaint Whether the photo is staged doesnt change the fact that those were real men not the p*ssies of today called men,

@@TheRandompaint It doesn't change the fact that men actually risked their lives everyday building highrises while you split hairs because that's the extent of your capabilities.

Lmao 😂

That was a great observation

I thought so too!!

Lmfao! It makes my skin crawl watching this. 2nd hand embarrassment is real.

What about the one red head chick that puts her hands up like it’s a roller coaster! Take your seatbelt and your little seat backing off and THEN put your hands up in the air!! What ticks me off is everyone else is doing a regular photo and she puts her hands up blocking the woman on her right. . . Other woman even has to put her head around the red heads body so that she could be seen from Armpit Annie!

@@FrostyTheSnowman12321 lOoK aT Me LooK aT mE🤣🤣🤣

It’s hard to tell the difference actually

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Notice no kangz that built america supposedly in photos like this

100% right

They were posing for a picture. And its not just one picture. There are several of them. Its completely staged.

The photo was also faked 😂

Back when men were men and not sissy’s

Nope, it's real@@TheRandompaint

@@MajorMeowzer go learn a little fam🙃

Also they were above 50 floors in the air without a platform under

Men these days don’t lol

Do you know who had balls those days? The bosses and owners who cared nothing for the safety, these were abused men, slaves for a sum of money, risking their lives for a salary that was probably outrageously low.

Photo manipulation existed back then

​​@@PabloMorenoCordon-pr8wbnobody died while building the Rockefeller building. (That photo) only 3 died while building the empire state building. 50 years later right after OSHA was created over 80 workers died building the WTC while following OSHA rules. The insane amount of rules created by osha has killed dozens of more workers at a rate 100x fold than pre osha. Stop drinking that government kool-aid.

@@Caligrapher88 that wasnt such a big deal back then tho

They eat toenails as breakfast

@@shadowgojiro mmmmm

Yep, him in a suit and tie with his camera bracing himself against a beam while getting tha shot. He looks just as fearless.

'Wah wah wah, please feel bad for me, a privileged man living under patriarchy'

Working for pennies? Those men made good money in those days doing that kind of work, what are you talking about

In those days that job can get you a house in 1 year, no joke.

@@ayv- I know seriously... people are so absent minded these days

Dude calm down, it's just a picture, it's not that serious. Nobody is dishonoring them. If anything this shows that people still appreciate them and they haven't been forgotten by the general public.

My dad was an iron worker and he was screwed over really badly he was injured at work and the union and his boss refused to pay for the surgery he needed he ended up getting it thru the va but it was horrible workman’s comp said no your heath ins should help you and his health ins would say no the workman’s comp needs to help you. It’s absolutely ridiculous how my dad was treated in a job like that we thought had his back he was a foreman and had been doing it a long time. It’s absolutely disgusting since it’s happened he’s lost his mind and has become hooked in pain killers from the injury he had at work. He only got surgery because he was in the va. Even Cigna ins he had thru his job wasn’t covering these injuries.

Tell your dad to switch to Aetna. They've been good so far. Speedy recovery to him.

​@mitchelleroberson, that's terrible to hear,and I'm sorry your family went through this.I work in the trades for a union company and had a bad fall of 21 ft and broke multiple bones but had an opposite experience, I even still work for the same company still. Did your father not hire a lawyer,or ever talk to lawyer to see if they could do anything? Did they blame him for not following safety rules or something,it's crazy that they got away with something like that

​@mitchelleroberson as a former Ironworker who was injured pretty badly, it's up to workers comp or his ins to pay, not the union. Sorry to hear about him

Alhamdoulillah Im Not interessed in this

Wow.that building got my so intrested.And then I found your comment .its so thin and unusual :)

Cool info. I'm a flooring contractor so I can imagine what a pain in the A it was. Nowhere to cut, having to bring tools/materials up elevators is a mess. What's the name of the building, do you remember? And those spaces are empty gaps from one side to the other?

@@cwatson42785 Its called the Steinway Tower, and Mhmm! The buildings design is so thin to reduce sway theose are legit just giant empty gaps.

Why all this information

That’s really interesting!

Same! No seat belts and it looks like it’s windy. Seems pretty reckless

​@@JamietheroadrunnerI checked, there are seatbelts. Thank heavens.

@@Traci_Websinger 😰

Me and my buddy had a job where we had to remove a gutter from a 4 floor at the edge of the roof it feels like double 😅

Innovating **

Well said!!!

Ay this dork really wrote all that for a staged photo lmao

It’s nothing like the original photo, but I’m Sure someone is making money on it. It’s sad that people don’t see history for what it is, exceptional with much to learn from and respect.

​@@Kwhopperfan people who don't know the original was a publicity stunt? Don't worry, someone made money off of it the first time too.

​@@Channel10-he2se He didn't say a thing about the staged photo... And it was a handful of sentences.

The structural engineer and architect probably allowed for hurricane force winds, NYC building code is very stringent.

You must be barrel of joy at parties lol

@@EthanLomas you’re still partying huh?😹

@@violetjames7534uh..You stopped at a certain age? That’s pretty sad.

The original is a doctored publicity photo and a slap in the face to anyone who respects truth

@@URightBut 😂

Negative. They didn't design it safely. Look how close the customers are to the edge of the building. It's only a matter of time until someone falls to their death.

No safety belts.

About a dozen pints of whiskey for me. But wait, then I will be too dizzy and staggering and I will definitely Fall!

😂😂😂

Struggled with the comment bud. Everything will be okay 👍

F the insurance premium would be sky high

​@@Sharyk808was I same the thinking.

Been cool it have would had.

@@Sharyk808 Was wondering how they actually got insurance to build 2.

Your life

Lol, but that does not answer my question.

It's on the Rockefeller Center. I don't know how much the ride cost. I think it was around $40 when a friend went to the top of there on the observation deck.

$25 in addition to admission to 30Rock

too much