Guys Eating Lunch On A Beam

Workers atop the 70 story rca building in new york s rockefeller center lunch on a steel beam.

Guys eating lunch on a beam. 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. Capturing lunch atop a skyscraper. 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. According to archivists the photograph was in fact prearranged.

Some of the tradesmen tossed a football. But lunch atop a skyscraper has come to represent the country s resilience especially on labor day. 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 most famously all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam their feet dangling 850 feet above the city s streets.

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. A few pretended to nap. Construction workers eat their lunches atop a steel beam 800 feet above ground at the building site of the rca building. The photograph was taken on september 20 1932 on the 69th floor of the rca building during the last months of construction.

The image of the 11 workers perched on a beam 69 floors above manhattan eating lunch sharing banter and lighting cigarettes is one of the world s most reproduced. The image was a publicity effort.