I think we’ve all seen the photo, it’s very famous, of the construction workers having lunch on a steel beam on top of the Chrysler Building from 1929 or 1930…I had one for years before I got married. In fact, it might be a law that a framed poster of that shot sits in the apartment of every single guy in America. The YouTube vortex once again sucked me in last night and found some rare and raw footage of construction on that building as well as the building at 500 Fifth Avenue in New York City from 1930.Let me say I’m not a huge fan of heights…these dude are just working away, smoking, joking a round…all while about a mile up in the air. The footage is nuts!
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