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Wednesday, April 15, 2026
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It's amazing what engineers can conceive.
Lunchtime during construction of the Rockefeller Center, NYC, 1932
Infidel753, I have to sit down for a spell anytime I see #5!! A Billion bucks, wouldn't have got me to join these brave construction workers for lunch!
Ok, I have seen this last pic several times over the years, and really never did any research on it. So, if a wind came along, or a pal slapped another one on the back if he told a good joke, DO they fall to their death. Is there some kind of landing not too far below? Why would they freaking have their lunch on the beam. I certainly hope they were well paid. Personally, I couldn't do the job.
Birds on a wire, steelworkers on a girder. And no, Scott, nothing on the ground to prevent a nasty death from those heights. When the big hydroelectric projects(Dams) were in construction, a few concrete workers fell into the pour and were irretrievable. Their forever tomb.
Great collection of images!
ReplyDelete#2: Five hundred years from now, spaceship-landing skills will have regressed considerably compared to the Apollo program.
ReplyDelete#4: Make a wrong turn on that thing and you'll end up in Narnia.
#5: I could never be a construction worker. I can't even look at that without feeling ill.
Infidel753, I have to sit down for a spell anytime I see #5!! A Billion bucks, wouldn't have got me to join these brave construction workers for lunch!
DeleteSúper.Amigo venezolano, Cúcuta
ReplyDeleteAnd, imagine --- they worked without safety harnesses.
ReplyDeleteThank the gods for OSHA! That last picture always makes my palms sweat. I was a chimney sweeper and that was enough for me!
ReplyDeleteMan, do I agree, every time I see this pic I have to lie down for a spell, lol, but true.
DeleteScott from Massachusetts said.
ReplyDeleteOk, I have seen this last pic several times over the years, and really never did any research on it. So, if a wind came along, or a pal slapped another one on the back if he told a good joke, DO they fall to their death. Is there some kind of landing not too far below? Why would they freaking have their lunch on the beam. I certainly hope they were well paid. Personally, I couldn't do the job.
No.2 is Rudolph Belarski cover art for Orbit Science Fiction September 1953.
ReplyDeleteJiEL - Wow, thanks for that info.
DeleteBirds on a wire, steelworkers on a girder. And no, Scott, nothing on the ground to prevent a nasty death from those heights. When the big hydroelectric projects(Dams) were in construction, a few concrete workers fell into the pour and were irretrievable. Their forever tomb.
ReplyDelete1- Volcàn de Colima, México
ReplyDelete3- Stereo image of the surface of Mars
4- Well, Dionne Warwick sang that LA was a great BIG freeway :)
-Rj
And everyone said that you were just a pretty face... 😁
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