Guys Eating Lunch On A Beam

Construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground at the building site of the rca building.

Guys eating lunch on a beam.

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. But lunch atop a skyscraper has come to represent the country s resilience especially on labor day. 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.

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. 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. 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. The image was a publicity effort.

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

According to archivists the photograph was in fact prearranged. Some of the tradesmen tossed a football.