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Posted on July 14, 2008 - Total Views 74381
Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932.
The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch, seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet above the New York City streets. Ebbets took the photo on September 29, 1932, and it appeared in the New York Herald Tribune in its Sunday photo supplement on October 2. Taken on the 69th floor of the GE Building during the last several months of construction, the photo Resting on a Girder shows the same workers napping on the beam.
Eare image by the same photographer showing the workers sleeping on the crossbeam
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(41 votes, average: 4.8 out of 5)
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Tags : Charles C • Construction Workers • Crossbeam • Ebbets • Girder • Lunch Atop A Skyscraper • Lunchtime Atop A Skyscraper • New Construction • New York City • New York City Streets • New York Construction • New York Herald • New York Herald Tribune • Photo • Photograph • Photographer • Rockefeller Center • September 29
August 26th, 2008 at 6:42 am
It’s a cool photo but I don’t see how it changed the world in any way?
August 26th, 2008 at 6:51 am
Coolphotos.com was already taken
August 26th, 2008 at 1:58 pm
photo is obviously staged…
who the hell eats his lunch with gloves on???????
August 26th, 2008 at 2:07 pm
Photo is not staged. Iroquoian High Steel workers live comfortably in the heights of new buildings. Could the photo not have been taken at the beginning of lunch?
August 26th, 2008 at 5:11 pm
its crazy to think those workers felt so safe at such heights, and its not staged my dad once told me about an Iroquoian high steel worker he met, he told me for some reason those natives were not ones to be afraid of heights
August 26th, 2008 at 6:26 pm
Push, AAAAAHHHHHHHH, no, just kidding. but this photo just gives you such a feeling of comfort even though you know that they could fall at any time. truly a well thought photo.
August 27th, 2008 at 2:11 am
I just hope none of them rolled over in their sleep. I agree with Jordan, it’s freaky to think that people would be comfortable enough to sit (and nap!) on a beam suspended so high up. I guess that goes to show that fear is in the mind.
August 29th, 2008 at 11:38 am
the workers are jewish slaves. they had to sleep up there at night with no security. it’s true!
August 29th, 2008 at 10:30 pm
I’ve worked with ironworkers. Yes, they are comfortable on the iron, far more than you would think.
They used to ride the iron up to the floor, but OSHA stopped that.
They do still walk across 1″ wide fill beams in a roof to get to where they want to go, and those fill beams MOVE.
Those 2 beams are probably a total of 4 feet wide. That’s not much of a challenge to walk. I’ve walked 12″ wide flange at 2 stories up, and while I don’t care for it, it’s not that hard.
Or, another way to say it is “These guys are fscking crazy!!”
August 30th, 2008 at 7:02 am
[...] Lunch atop a Skyscraper (New York Construction Workers Lunching on a Crossbeam) is a famous photograph taken by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of the GE Building at Rockefeller Center in 1932. [...]
August 30th, 2008 at 11:52 am
this photograph makes my *** cheeks clench together….and i like how that feels
September 1st, 2008 at 2:11 pm
[...] Lunchtime atop a Skyscraper [...]
September 1st, 2008 at 4:24 pm
I wish i was as brave as that.
They really don’t seem phased by where they are at all.
September 1st, 2008 at 4:25 pm
This picture makes the hairs on my neck stand up. Just knowing that one slip could make them fall at any time .
Remarkable picture .
September 1st, 2008 at 7:05 pm
once that joint they’re lighting went from one end to the other half fell off…
September 1st, 2008 at 9:38 pm
It changed the world because man had not ever gone so high before..and the fact that they were not scared to be up that high.
September 1st, 2008 at 11:11 pm
I know about this picture, it was originally of jobless men during the deppression sitting on the curb, thay photoshopped that background and added the skyline to make a statement about the future of plexiglass.
September 2nd, 2008 at 6:31 am
Workers are jewish. (eating with gloves on)
September 2nd, 2008 at 8:31 pm
I still dont see what they eat up there for
September 3rd, 2008 at 2:13 am
Caitlin - there ARE mountains, you know.
September 3rd, 2008 at 5:57 am
Tor, you are a legend. Your words very funny. Still go on.
September 3rd, 2008 at 10:06 am
thx hannah. i am legend.
who the **** is will smith!!! like, yall know whaddamean.
September 3rd, 2008 at 7:59 pm
hannah is a stupid shit, why u praise a man that u dont even know, abviously i havent read tor’s other comments on other photos.
nyways those guys are look unreal ! hope no one have a nightmare
September 3rd, 2008 at 11:18 pm
They were doing a Crazy Glue ad. Its in Wikipedia. Read it.
September 4th, 2008 at 1:12 pm
You gotta have balls the size of the boulders that roll behind Indiana Jones to do that.
September 6th, 2008 at 5:20 pm
who indian joe?
September 10th, 2008 at 1:24 am
Yeah, this is definitely not staged, and a great symbol of the American ingenuity. The guy in the top pic 4 from the right is actually my grandfather, my mom saves all of the pics of this that she can find. And they really did eat their lunch up there!
September 10th, 2008 at 9:59 pm
oh yeah, right! My granpappy was at the alamo, my mom says so….
September 15th, 2008 at 9:31 pm
it DOES change the world.
September 17th, 2008 at 9:06 pm
these photos are real. I go to school at Pace University in Downtown Manhattan and these photos are on a wall on one hallway with a little write up. SOME SAFETY CONDITIONS!
September 18th, 2008 at 6:58 pm
Incroyable photo. Les gratte-ciel naissent du courage plus que du labeur.
September 19th, 2008 at 8:27 pm
And they weren’t Iroquian or jewish, they were Italian and Irish.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:09 pm
non of them look too native to me!
September 25th, 2008 at 6:53 pm
why doesnt someone help these poor men?
September 27th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
these are all full blooded cherokee indians, or at least they had a granny who was, just ask em theyll tell ya so! Them cherokees was damn prolific!
October 1st, 2008 at 6:31 pm
That is actually my grandfather and 2 great uncles in the photograph……Everyone in the photo is from Newfoundland, Canada.
October 13th, 2008 at 12:13 pm
October 14th, 2008 at 3:04 am
Excuse me! Where was the photographer standing exactly?
it’s an awesome pic!
face your fears!
it may not change the world but it really change mine!
October 16th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
Dianne (no. 36 above). I’m trying to identify man on farthest right. I’m told he’s my uncle Jack. He’s a Newfoundlander. Can you help?
October 16th, 2008 at 4:45 pm
WOW–i feel dizzy,lol.
Those guys were great.
October 18th, 2008 at 6:10 pm
where the hell is OSHA.
that’s right, OSHA wasn’t around back then.
if they were we would never have these buildings today.
now it takes 4 hours to do a 2 minute job, safety first ya know.
October 18th, 2008 at 7:04 pm
thats really creepy!
October 20th, 2008 at 3:29 pm
Cizzy, please stop trying to talk like an American teenager, it’s embarrassing. If you truely live in Ireland than speak the way you were reared instead of emulating the likes of MTV. also its “tá mé (táim) abailte ag caint as Gaeilge”
October 23rd, 2008 at 12:36 pm
This crazy! I could not possibly be sitting up that high off the ground. They HAD to be making great money to do that type of work. But better yet, I most definitely could NOT be asleep ontop of that crossbeam. I would have been dead. I am a wild sleeper. I would have rolled off as soon as I closed my eyes ..really !!
October 23rd, 2008 at 7:46 pm
crazy white people
lol, jk.
October 26th, 2008 at 9:31 am
That photo makes me shiver if nothing else.
October 27th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
I’m an architecture student and I think this photo is amazing. High rise buildings are awesome and the Chicago skyline would not be what it is without men like this and the architects and engineers that made those buildings possible. Load baring walls can only do so much and the steel skeleton made high rises possible.
October 28th, 2008 at 4:58 pm
Great post… and really like the rest of the site - btw you’ll love this article all about the Cherokee language - http://www.bloglingua.com/the-cherokee-language/
October 31st, 2008 at 3:46 am
i am incredibly afraid of heights
and just looking at those pictures
literally gives me chills.
November 3rd, 2008 at 1:02 pm
‘S mise Eireannach freisin, agus Cizzy - níl sé “í” Gaeilge, tá sé “as” Gaeilge, mo Dhia…
Always been sceptical regarding this photo, but all the research I’ve done only proves its authenticity…wowza
November 4th, 2008 at 8:03 pm
Hi
photos were definately staged. I saw I website recently (sorry cant remember address) there were several pictures including the ones above. A professional photographer did (stage) these pics.
Yes they are all workers on a sky scraper, work was dangerous and those guy had more balls than me.
So pics were real but they men working did not relax like that. Sorry I cant find that website there were great pics on there with an explanation of each one.
November 5th, 2008 at 11:06 pm
this is so fake
November 19th, 2008 at 10:19 am
I think this guys are so poor they had to risk thier lives, also they do not have anythink to lose.
November 19th, 2008 at 11:58 am
Nice photo, but I’m still unsure about how it changed the world. One would expect photographs of Gandhi to make it to this hallowed list as well, would one not? It would seem more appropriate if this list was rechristened “photos that changed America, and a few more, just for kicks”.
November 20th, 2008 at 4:27 pm
gandhi changed nothing, he was a fagboy.
November 27th, 2008 at 1:35 pm
These men are indeed Newfoundlanders, My grandfather worked as an Ironworker in New york as these men depicted in the photo. To the Irish gentlemen…there are a lot of irish decendants in newfoundland. I am one, as was my grandfather.
December 4th, 2008 at 10:03 pm
poopoo newflounder!
December 14th, 2008 at 2:42 am
I rode a newfoundlander oncet, had to use me chewing tobbaccy fer lubrication….
December 15th, 2008 at 7:25 pm
thats cacacaacrazzzzzy
December 18th, 2008 at 5:05 am
the feller on the end is lighten up his Marlboro, its a real mans cigarette…
December 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pm
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December 30th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
The rarest photo of this Ebbets series, much less seldom seen than “Sleeping Atop a Skyscraper,” is “”Peeing Atop a Skyscraper.”
January 4th, 2009 at 10:13 pm
Wonder if anyone ever “relieved” themselves up there