21 Old-School Construction Workers With Absolutely No Fear Of Heights
Carly Tennes
Published
08/19/2024
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Though skyscrapers may be commonplace in any modern city, one question remains about the construction of our urban landscape that sometimes hits one hundred stories high: How did these guys not mess their pants? They, of course, have no fear of heights, but that doesn't make us any less queasy.
From sky-high workers taking a nap to the painters tasked with giving the Eiffel Tower a nice shellac, here are 21 photos of old-school iron workers without a trace of acrophobia.
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“NYC iron workers, 1930s.” -
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“Iron workers moving a section of the World Trade Center antenna, 1979.” -
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“An Iron Worker Enjoys a Cup of Joe While Building the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1973).” -
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“My iron worker cousin building Boston in the 70s.” -
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“Two waiters serve two steel workers lunch while building the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue in NYC, 1930.” -
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“Iron Worker on Manhattan Bridge, 1980s.” -
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“An iron worker, perched on the west tower of the Sky Ride, drinks an Edelweiss beer during construction of the World's Fair in 1933.” -
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“Workers finished the final touches at EPCOT - opened 1982.” -
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“My grandfather working on the construction of the Verrazano Bridge (1960).” -
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“Miss 'Collie' Collier, a reporter for the Chicago Herald-Examiner, working on an iron girder atop the Wrigley Building in 1920.” -
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“Men sleep on beams 60 floors high building the Rockefeller Center skyscraper, the RCA Building (now known as the GE Building) September 20, 1932.” -
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“Iron Worker, Chicago, 1968.” -
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“A construction worker carries a sack across a beam working on a 71-story skyscraper on 40 Wall Street, New York City, 1930.” -
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“Steelworker touching the tip of the Chrysler Building - 1931.” -
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“Construction workers from 1928 in Missouri.” -
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“Carl Russell waving to his co-workers on the structural work of the 88th floor of the Empire State Building. Sep, 13. 1930.” -
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“My dad took this photo of his coworkers working on a skyscraper- Late 80s.” -
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“A man repairs the antenna on the World Trade Center, NYC, 1979. Photo by Peter Kaplan.” -
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“Workers paint the Eiffel Tower, 1924.” -
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“Electrical workers balance high up on the Eiffel tower in Paris to change the lights that illuminate the tower at night, Oct. 29, 1937.” -
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“Men painting the top of the Woolworth Building 1930’s.”
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