https://mobile.twitter.com/historyinmemes/status/1599985147549745152

Never thought about it before, but you know that famous picture of a bunch of construction workers sitting on a girder way up in the sky and having lunch? Well, here's the photographer who took that picture: Charles C. Ebbets. pic.twitter.com/E33aUPzvDn

— Historic Vids (@historyinmemes) December 6, 2022

Balls of fu*king steel

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Mfer sharp than a thumb tac. If I wore this in the street they would be all on me. Lol strangers asking me where I'm going and sh*t. Old heads pumping their fist in the air like when Calvin first got that job at McDonald's when I walk by

Guys like that are why when feminists tell me they can do anything a man can do I just laugh at them. Men built this world they feel comfortable enough to talk sh*t in.

in his best Sunday suit and oxfords too

BrooklynDamien said Mfer sharp than a thumb tac. If I wore this in the street they would be all on me. Lol strangers asking me where I'm going and sh*t. Old heads pumping their fist in the air like when Calvin first got that job at McDonald's when I walk by

crazy how people used to dress back then, had to have the suit and coat with the derby

that wasnt even his sunday best

of course there wasnt many options

shorts didnt even come around till the 30's

Who took the picture of him tho

POWER RAPS said Who took the picture of him tho

POWER RAPS said Who took the picture of him tho

POWER RAPS said Who took the picture of him tho

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sh*t ain't real

No way

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Photo buffs know the truth behind the classic photo: It was staged. The men in the picture were real ironworkers. They did build the structure that is now the 22nd tallest building in New York City and home to NBC studios. But rather than capture them in the midst of their lunch break, the photographer posed them on the beam for multiple takes — images that were intended as advertising for the new building. Some historians believe there was a sturdy level of the structure, then called the RCA building, just below the frame. “You see the picture once, you never forget it," Rockefeller Center archivist Christine Roussel told Time magazine. But “the funniest part about the photographs," she said, "were they were done for publicity.” Other photos taken that day show the workers playing football, holding up American flags or pretending to sleep on the steel beam. It was the lunch photo that was published in the New York Herald Tribune that October, seven months before the building would open

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Cap

No heights for me playa, just the thought of being on those beams is making me dizzy

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gunits50cent187 said Balls of fu*king steel

Not a fu*king safety harness in sight

POWER RAPS said Who took the picture of him tho

Tooo high way to highhh for this sh*t right now

Micheal C. Will said No heights for me playa, just the thought of being on those beams is making me dizzy

when I'm inside or strap down can do the height no on no beam


OP

you telling me dude took the pic lookin sharp and posing like that he smooth and fearless

Hell nah

And I know them Oxford bottoms are slick af

I’m so scared of heights I don’t even like high ceilings.. I’d pass tf out. Guaranteed.

By far my biggest phobia… sh*t makes me so nauseous.