Famous Picture Of Man Sitting On Steel Beam

The picture shows 11 men eating lunch while atop a skyscraper in 1932.

Famous picture of man sitting on steel beam.

The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch seated on a girder with their feet dangling 840 feet 260 meters above the new york city streets. These workers were constructing 70 floors of the skyscraper that day sharing food and cigarettes. The photograph was taken on september 20 1932 on the 69th floor of the rca building during the last months of construction. In addition to photos featuring different poses for the 11 men on the beam there s also a rarely seen picture of four of the men stretched out across it taking a well deserved nap.

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 taken at what is now the ge building struck a chord with americans during the great depression. 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. Lunch atop a skyscraper showing 11 workers eating lunch while sitting on a steel beam 800 feet above rockefeller center was taken on september 20 1932.

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This was a beacon of hope during the height of the great depression at the time. According to archivists the photograph was in fact prearranged. But most famously all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam their feet dangling 850 feet above the city s streets. According to filmmaker séan ó cualáin whose documentary men at lunch attempts to uncover the secrets of the famous lunch atop a skyscraper photo taken in 1932 matty and sonny are two of the 11.