20 Incredible Photos of the Construction of the Empire State Building

History Collection ^ | 7/23/17 | Jacob Miller

[millenial4freedom]

[wildcard_redneck]

You neglect to think about all of the new regulations, the growth of bureaucracy, and the vast number of lawyers now compared to 1930. There is now a vast industry of lawyers tying up projects for years, sometimes for decades.

[fella]

There are some really good films of NYC iron workers from that period.

[dfwgator]

To think in a few years, some of the Stooges shorts will be 100 years old. And people will still be watching them.

[TangoLimaSierra]

This guy had no problem with the heights.

[TexasGator]

“so the bottom one is original? If you do fall, you don’t reach out and take someone with you? same reason you don’t bunch up in combat.”

The bottom one is not the original.

[shotgun]

I worked with a Mohican Iron worker who fell from the 52nd floor of the PanAm building and landed on an outrigger 7 floors down.

He then went to work as an Operating Engineer but got frost bite in his feet while working in Canada. He then went to work as a Pipefitter, which is how I met him.

The guy was the dead look alike for Lou Costello and just as funny.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

What strikes me as most amazing is that they are wearing leather sole shoes with heels!.
Not a good idea on any construction job these days. And certainly not for ironworkers.

[dancusa]

https://www.davidgrantnoble.com/mohawk-steelworkers/

Article.

[Albion Wilde]

Just the white male patriarchy oppressing everyone all over New York.

[C210N]

That meme came out during the heydey of covid nonsense, with the 6’ social distancing.

[Albion Wilde]

That’s so interesting about the Mohawks!

Philadelphia has several high suspension bridges across the Delaware River to New Jersey. I knew a Greek family there in the 70s with a painting company. They hired other native Greeks for bridge painting supposedly because they had already worked on ships and bridges, high above the water.

[Albion Wilde]

My take on that meme is that the guy in the yellow jacket is superimposed to imply he is a government regulator, and after he writes them up, the bottom meme shows them “socially distancing” on that beam.

All by the miracle of computer graphics.

[T. Rustin Noone]

My father would take the trolley from Montclair to the Jersey side of the river with his boyhood friends and watch the ESB being built. It was one of his most repeated childhood memories.

[JimRed]

That whiskey bottle may have been repurposed for water. Pre-plastic days...

[dfwgator]

“Here’s to the first of the day, fellas!”

[Vaduz]

The bottle is mightier than the quiver.

[Cobra64]

Thirteen months.

[SkyDancer]

Well considering the infrastructure, eighteen months was reasonable. The outside building and all that, okay, thirteen months. In any case, it was faster than the Freedom Tower that took ten years.

[bankwalker]

ironworkers ... I was raised by one ... a great man ...