And what country can preserve its liberties if their rulers are not warned from time to time that their people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms. The remedy is to set them right as to facts, pardon and pacify them. What signify a few lives lost in a century or two? The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
I tried to do a "visual search" of the image to see what year this photo was taken, but "Copilot" came up and I do not know WTF that is.
Anyway, I am guessing that when the photo might have been taken, the US was in some sort of financial stress, and those fellows were simply happy just to be employed.
If it was during depression time of the 30s I know my Dad and Mom lived through it and had nothing along with my aunts and uncles. Guys working on high buildings for construction earned money they would not have gotten in other ways.
I tried to do a "visual search" of the image to see what year this photo was taken, but "Copilot" came up and I do not know WTF that is.
ReplyDeleteAnyway, I am guessing that when the photo might have been taken, the US was in some sort of financial stress, and those fellows were simply happy just to be employed.
Copilot is Microsoft's spy program, and it is very hard if not impossible to opt out of everything. This is a start though...
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Woolworth Building
DeleteYeah, the five and dime joint.
What was the job, one wonders?
ReplyDeleteThe guys who had to clean up after King Kong was shot off that building had a big job.
ReplyDeleteI am pretty sure that the building that King Kong climbed up was the Empire State Building. It's quite a few blocks from the Woolworth Building.
DeleteGets pretty gusty up there.
ReplyDeleteAt least the stools were tied off.
ReplyDeleteYeah, you don’t want loose stools up there
Deletegood 'un !
DeleteAbsolutely no fear of heights. Guys with the nuts built this country. Who'll step up now?
ReplyDeleteplenty of union ironworkers
DeleteYou sure as hell won't find a Somali up there.
DeleteI worked 100 foot up with no tie off--on one scaffold plank for , 4 months in 19 and 82--This is nuts
ReplyDeleteAnd then came OSHA.
ReplyDeleteHow did they not lose their hats?
ReplyDeleteMost of the high steel iron workers back then were Mohawk. Many were from Brantford, Cornwall in Ontario and St. Regis in New York State
ReplyDeleteSomething about a genetic "defect" that prevented them from getting vertigo...
DeleteI see some walking to/from work now and then, often looking father/son. usually w/fiber salad bowl hard hats.
DeleteIf it was during depression time of the 30s I know my Dad and Mom lived through it and had nothing along with my aunts and uncles. Guys working on high buildings for construction earned money they would not have gotten in other ways.
ReplyDeletecomposite foto, not real. the more famous one with pint whiskey bottle in a guy's pocket is an assemblage, also.
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