Today is the 94th birthday, of the Empire State Building. Toured it some 40 years ago, it is beautiful, not like cookie cutter skyscrapers of today.
Just have to say it took a lot of cajones for the workers to have lunch some 1,000 feet with no safety constraints at all. I know I couldn't do it.
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To: DallasBiff
I guess OSHA wasn’t around then.
34 posted on
05/01/2025 10:34:38 AM PDT by
aquila48
(Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
To: DallasBiff
Fun fact: Many Mohawk Indians were involved in the labor force in those days of building skyscrapers. They were fearless for not being scared of heights.
35 posted on
05/01/2025 10:40:01 AM PDT by
dancusa
(Donald Trump is Acting Like Rush Limbaugh on Steroids!)
To: DallasBiff
My Great- Grandfather helped to build it.
To: DallasBiff
During that time my Dad was a rivet tosser on the George Washington Bridge then a Sand Hog in the Holland tunnel.
39 posted on
05/01/2025 10:44:31 AM PDT by
fella
("As it was before Noah so shall it be again," )
To: DallasBiff
41 posted on
05/01/2025 10:46:57 AM PDT by
millenial4freedom
(Government was supposed to preserve freedom, not serve as a jobs program for delinquents and misfits)
To: DallasBiff
This guy had no problem with the heights.
45 posted on
05/01/2025 10:49:15 AM PDT by
TangoLimaSierra
(⭐⭐To the Left, The Truth is Right Wing Violence⭐⭐)
To: DallasBiff
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.
47 posted on
05/01/2025 10:58:02 AM PDT by
shotgun
To: DallasBiff
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.
48 posted on
05/01/2025 10:59:15 AM PDT by
Governor Dinwiddie
( O give thanks unto the Lord, for He is gracious, and His mercy endures forever. — Psalm 106)
To: DallasBiff
Just the white male patriarchy oppressing everyone all over New York.
50 posted on
05/01/2025 11:24:35 AM PDT by
Albion Wilde
(Think about it: The Supreme Court is nine lawyers appointed for life by politicians. —David Horowitz)
To: DallasBiff
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.
To: DallasBiff
ironworkers ... I was raised by one ... a great man ...
60 posted on
05/01/2025 12:32:06 PM PDT by
bankwalker
(Feminists, like all Marxists, are ungrateful parasites.)
To: DallasBiff
The guy on the right has a whisky bottle.
All the men have regular leather shoes. No safety gear at all.
67 posted on
05/02/2025 12:13:45 PM PDT by
minnesota_bound
(Need more money to buy everything now)
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