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02-06-2011, 06:44 PM
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Location: Dawsonville, Georgia
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Re: Vintage shots from days gone by!
Why...just Why did you guys post those men in the sky. My blood is rushing and my hands are sweaty and my leg is shaking!
 I just hate heights!-Cody |
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02-06-2011, 07:00 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jan 2004
Location: central Pa.
Posts: 5,105
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Re: Vintage shots from days gone by!
There's a picture of two guys working together, each standing on the end of a plank. One is standing on the steel beam side of the plank, the other is standing cantelevered out over NOTHING bucking a rivet. If his buddy moves he's falling, of course neither has a harness on.
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02-06-2011, 07:08 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: columbus, ohio
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Re: Vintage shots from days gone by!
Hate to differ, but the Empire State Building took some time to construct, and the erection (sorry!) took place mostly while the "Roaring '20s" were still roaring.
The Chrysler Building was completed in 1928, the Empire State in 1930. The stock market crashed in late-1929. The "height" (or deepest pit) of the Great Depression was 1933. Anyway, I think your point was still a good one. |
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02-06-2011, 07:09 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2007
Location: Gettysburg PA
Posts: 1,046
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Re: Vintage shots from days gone by!
Anyone else notice the coupe in the center with a "bed" and the trunk lid removed?
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02-06-2011, 07:15 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jul 2008
Location: Howell Michigan
Posts: 4,345
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Re: Vintage shots from days gone by!
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Dang! I get the heebie jeebies just looking at that pic!!!!
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02-06-2011, 07:29 PM
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Join Date: Dec 2010
Location: Basking Ridge, New Jersey
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Re: Vintage shots from days gone by!
I understand from steelworkers that you can work for 20 years @ heights and then one day just freeze so that others have to pry your hands loose from the steel so they can get you down.
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02-06-2011, 07:44 PM
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Grenade Inspector
Join Date: Nov 2009
Location: WA State
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Re: Vintage shots from days gone by!
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02-06-2011, 07:45 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jan 2009
Location: columbus, ohio
Posts: 9,523
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Re: Vintage shots from days gone by!
I have to correct myself on a date, sorry. One source says the Empire State was oficially opened May 1931, not 1930.
The building and property cost nearly $25 million. And depending on your source from five to 14 lives were officially lost, though insiders in the construction industry said it cost about one life per floor. But I think we all agree that guys working the high iron had balls of steel! |
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02-06-2011, 08:04 PM
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Join Date: Oct 2007
Location: C
Posts: 645
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Re: Vintage shots from days gone by!
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I just double checked and it was started in 1930 and took just over one year to build. That's all, one year. I can't even imagine. |
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02-06-2011, 08:47 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Gold Coast
Posts: 7,171
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02-06-2011, 08:50 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Gold Coast
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02-06-2011, 08:52 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Gold Coast
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02-06-2011, 08:53 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Gold Coast
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02-06-2011, 08:58 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Gold Coast
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02-06-2011, 09:00 PM
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Old School HAMBer
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Location: Gold Coast
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02-06-2011, 09:01 PM
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Old School HAMBer
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Location: Gold Coast
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02-06-2011, 09:02 PM
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Old School HAMBer
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Gold Coast
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02-06-2011, 09:07 PM
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Old School HAMBer
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Location: Gold Coast
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02-06-2011, 09:08 PM
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Old School HAMBer
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Location: Gold Coast
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02-06-2011, 09:09 PM
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Old School HAMBer
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Location: Gold Coast
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