#31: Lunch on a Skyscraper Beam
Do you recall that very famous photo of construction workers eating their lunch on a large metal beam suspended high over the city? It seems such a dangerous way to eat a meal that most people probably assume it’s just designed to look like they’re above the city. But they really are!
This daring photographer named Charles Ebbets scaled the construction site of the future Rockefeller Center in 1938 and captured some of the workers on their lunch break. They sure look comfortable on that beam, and Charles looks quite at home, too. We wonder if he had any clue that he was about to take such an iconic image.