Workers Sitting On Steel Beam Eating Lunch

Shot of 11 workers eating and smoking 69 floors up was staged for.

Workers sitting on steel beam eating lunch.

The picture that proves why iconic photograph of workers eating their lunch on rockefeller beam was all a publicity stunt. 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. A second rarely seen image captured on the same day may reveal why. Ebbets during construction of the rca building renamed as the ge building in 1986 at rockefeller center.

Lunch atop a skyscraper was in fact one of many staged photographs taken on september 20 1932 as part of a publicity. The sight of 11 rockefeller center construction workers casually eating lunch across a beam hanging 850 feet in the air was a hopeful look at life in the. But most famously all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam their feet dangling 850 feet above the city s streets. The story behind the famous shot for 80 years the 11 ironworkers in the iconic photo have remained unknown and now thanks to new research two of them have.

Lunch atop a skyscraper photograph. Getty images bettmann getty images. Admiring this iconic nyc photograph i made this resin sculpture that catches the details of the figures and gives new life to this masterpiece. The photograph depicts 11 men eating lunch seated on a girder with their feet dangling hundreds of feet.

Workers atop the 70 story rca building in new york s rockefeller center lunch on a steel beam overlooking the city in 1932. Available in three sizes there is a magnet at the bottom of each figure so that it can be. This item hse 1932 iconic photo of eleven ironworkers eating their lunch sitting on steel beam classic poster 24x36 2 to 5 days shipping from usa new york lunch atop a skyscraper photograph taken in 1932 by charles c. Lunch atop a skyscraper new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam is a famous photograph taken in 1932 by charles c.

But lunch atop a skyscraper was different.