Workers Eating Lunch On A Beam

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.

Workers eating lunch on a beam. Ebbets print poster 20 x 16. 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. It showed the world that new york. A few pretended to nap.

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 30s. One of the most iconic photos of american workers is not what it seems but lunch atop a skyscraper has come to represent the country s resilience especially on labor day. Getty images construction workers relax on the beams of a construction building in new york city. But most famously all 11 ate lunch on a steel beam their feet dangling 850 feet above the city s streets.

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 new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam is a photograph taken atop the steelwork of 30 rockefeller plaza during the construction of the rockefeller center in manhattan new york city united states. A tribute to america s heroes sculptures inspired by the famous photograph of the eleven workers eating lunch on a beam during the construction of rockefeller center in 1932. 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.

The photograph titled lunch atop a skyscraper or new york construction workers lunching on a crossbeam was taken 69 floors from the ground and was first printed in the new york herald tribune on oct.