History 1930s Photos - Empire State Building

Not car related, but I figured everyone would get a kick out of them anyway. Maybe they have already been posted?

 

I can't see any photos Richard.

 

Damn, red X. Anyone know how to pull photos out of a Powerpoint file? These are really cool.

 

Yeah, click on "save as", then in the box that pops up, choose .jpg or .jpeg (depends on powerpoint version, just realized that all the letters of powerpoint except for the "n" are on the qwerty row of the keyboard....) and then you're golden.

 

Can't see the pix but I got the same email the other day. Very cool shots! Back when MEN weren't afraid to work and no OSHA.

 

Thanks, I always wondered how to do that.

 

My hands are sweating just looking at that, i would have p***ed out; major heights freak me out... god bless those guys.

 

From a quick search, amazing that only two of the five deaths during construction were due to falls:

Though rumors of hundreds of people dying on the work site circulated during the time of its construction, official records state that only five workers were killed: one worker was struck by a truck; a second fell down an elevator shaft; a third was hit by a hoist; a fourth was in a blast area; and a fifth fell off a scaffold.

 

That is very cool. Thanks for posting.

 

holy ****! those guys are ****en crazy!!!! yea no thanks! thanks for posting.

 

very nice. thanks.

 

I've been to the top of the Empire State Building many times. Its a must if you come visit NYC. Those pictures are amazing! Thanks for posting them

 

I get vertigo just looking at them....unbelievable! Those were real men!

 

My wife and I got engaged at the top of the Empire State Building forty years ago. I always say I should have jumped and she always says she should have pushed me. The fact that we're still having that conversation says we must be doing something right. New York city and its history are fascinating subjects. Thanks for posting.

 

Cl***ic!

 

so crazy.

 

wheres the gorilla??
JimV

 

Thats really cool. I would like to go to the top of the building one of these days.

 

Thanks for posting these.I worked for Otis Elevator for a few months back in the 70s after welding "school"..We were building the TVA towers in Knoxville.Only people crazier than the elevator guys were the ironworkers.When OSHA came by to inspect,we had to throw our safety belts to the guys above or below us,since we never had enough for everybody.Takes good timing to throw your belt to the next guy while the inspector is walking up or down the stairs.Just seeing those pics makes me hyperventilate.I now hate heights,don't even like cleaning my gutters.
If you want to live dangerously,ride the elevators I did the welding on..Wet rods,****ty gas drive welders that sometimes would hold an arc...sometimes...

 

Man I got kida sick just looking at those pics. Those guys had major balls

 

What year did the concept of self preservation emerge in mankind?

Bob

 

built in two years--during the depression.................Now the studies on the plans of the fesibility on the concept of the outlook about a conference over the...........

 

that would have been such a cool job!

 

Those guys had some balls, didn't they!

 

i wonder how much those guys were getting paid an hour, probably not alot, just happy to have a job.

 

duffy I agree 100 %,

what a cool job.

 

Shame my folks are gone; I know they'd have enjoyed the pics. They're originally from the Bronx and I remember them telling me about the construction of the Empire State Building (and my seeing it for the first time in 1956!). Thanks for sharing.

 

man and i was a little worried last friday when i was at the top of this and on a 10' ladder cutting and welding ****.



if i had a better phone you would be able to see the empire state building

 

These photos remine me of Harold Lloyd's '"Safety Last" and Laurel & Hardy's "Liberty," where they escape from jail and climb up an unfinished building in Los Angeles....both movies had the stars do the stunts without safety equipment.

 

just looking at the pictures made my stomach churn. The picture of the guys eating lunch always amazed me. we had a neighbor when we lived in new york and she would tell us about watching them build that building and how when she was a little girl they would play on the vacant lot where they built it. but those guys were definitely cut from a different cloth. Considering the depression was going on, most of them had to either do that or watch their families starve. different kind of bravery.