Guys Eating Lunch On A Beam

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.

Guys eating lunch on a beam.

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

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 image was a publicity effort. 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. Some of the tradesmen tossed a football.

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. The photograph was taken on september 20 1932 on the 69th floor of the rca building during the last months of construction. Capturing lunch atop a skyscraper. But lunch atop a skyscraper has come to represent the country s resilience especially on labor day.

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. 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.