Workmen in the days BEFORE OSHA
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The picture that proves why iconic photograph of workers eating their lunch on Rockefeller beam was all a publicity stunt
Shot of 11 workers eating and smoking 69 floors up was staged for promotion of the nearly finished building
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Staged: The iconic photograph of workers enjoying their break whilst perched on a beam 69 floors up was, in fact, just a publicity stunt
Well no photoshop back then :P but that didn't stop them :D
'The image was a publicity effort by the Rockefeller Center. It seems pretty clear they were real workers, but the event was organised with a number of photographers.' Ken Johnston, chief historian for Corbis Images, which owns the rights to the photo, told the Independent.
He added that it is Corbis Images' biggest selling historical image and tops other iconic historical photographs in the Corbis catalogue, including those of Albert Einstein and Martin Luther King.
The original negative of the photograph is stored in a temperature-controlled facility under Pennsylvania's Iron Mountain. Johnston described the world famous black and white photograph as 'a piece of American history.'
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'The other one': It is this image, of four construction workers take a nap on the same beam shot on the same day which, according to archives, prove it was all just a set-up
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2206050/The-picture-proves-iconic-photograph-workers-eating-lunch-Rockefeller-beam-publicity-stunt.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3zgNMr_8zc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=16&v=_3zgNMr_8zc
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdPd1hlWe0k
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdPd1hlWe0k
I was doing some family history research the other night, and finally looked up my dad's occupation in the coal mines. He was a fireman. The guy who went in first thing, before the rest of the crew, to check for noxious and/or explosive gases. A human canary in a coal mine.
Shasta
Looking at that photo makes me go cold and dizzy, I don't care if it was staged or not it still scares the **** out of me. :)