Stunning footage of the construction of New York's
Empire State Building remastered and colorized.
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Wow... all made from steel plate and some I-beam and lots and lots and lots of rivets! It took 1 year and 1 day to erect. All Union labor, too!
ReplyDeleteBefore OSHA, I'm betting. I know they say 5 men died during construction, but makes you wonder about lost fingers, hands, eyes, toes, feet. No steel toe shoes, but by God they had steel balls. Mohawks well represented, but I didn't see any blacks.
ReplyDeleteNot a safety net anywhere to be seen. Yeah, these guys had big ones, for sure! All the skyscrapers were done this way back in the 1920s-30s. Just shows you that this country was actually built by white men, unlike the false garbage that is taught to people today. Absolutely amazing footage, though I have seen many still photos of the same kind of thing.
ReplyDeleteThere were a lot of Mohawks there, too. The white guys that hired them for the high-iron work believed they had exceptional balance and no fear of heights. I think the truth is they grew up climbing trees and learning to never be affected by fear. That was enough.
DeleteBut the reason there were no blacks was not that they didn't want the jobs. It was that either the bosses didn't think they could do the job or that half the white men refused to work beside a black man, and the trade unions didn't want them either. You could have a black work force (it worked well for Pullman, the maker and operator of sleeper train cars), or a white work force (most shops in the north chose this because there were a lot more whites), but everyone was sure that a mixed one was trouble...
until a decade later, when Detroit auto plants were expanding and converting to war production and needed every worker they could find. Black sharecroppers and white hillbillies poured into Michigan for the advertised assembly-line jobs and discovered they could work side by side, even if they wouldn't socialize or live near each other.
I couldn't finish the video. No safety nets or belts and heights scare me. That was real mans work for sure!
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