Obituary: John Lundberg - last surviving steelworker of Empire State Building

AP ^ | Mar. 10, 2004

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John "Jack" Lundberg - Obituary

AP

Mar. 10, 2004

WATERTOWN, Wis. (AP) - John "Jack" Lundberg, believed to be one of the last surviving steelworkers who built New York's Empire State Building, died Wednesday. He was 97.

The Empire State Building, at 102 stories, was completed in 1931 and for years stood as the world's tallest skyscraper before other structures surpassed it.

Lundberg, whose death was confirmed Friday by the Pederson Funeral Home, also worked on the Chrysler building and Rockefeller Center in New York and the John Hancock Tower in Boston.

The Discovery Channel and the BBC both interviewed Lundberg for documentaries about working on the buildings. He was a member of Iron Workers Local 371 of New York.

[NautiNurse]

Lots of Empire State Building construction photos at NY Public Library

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Thanks

[Fiddlstix]

BTTT

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[Doug_I]

Jack was quite a man, he was my grandfather. He kept a diary of every job he worked on; interesting reading.

We have a couple photos of him on the job, the most interesting is the most famous. He is 4th from the left in the men on the beam photo taken from the Rockefellow center.

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Sorry for your loss.
He must have had a lot of interesting stories......