I guess you have to make your own merriment at employment , even when body of work is 20 stories off the ground on the skeletal system of a succeeding skyscraper . But these photos of construction doer enjoy their breaks and exposure - ops high in the air are simply terrifying .
Of course , not all of these picture show worker goof around . Some of them are just doing their jobs . Their scarey , vertigo - inducing jobs .
A construction worker is hauled up to his place of work on a 30-story skyscraper on New York’s waterfront
( Photo by Henry Guttmann / Getty Images and General Photographic Agency / Getty Images )
A man balancing on scaffolding, 150 ft over New Orleans, 1925
( Photo by Topical Press Agency / Getty Images )
A worker walking blindfolded on a construction girder twenty stories high in New York City, 1925
Scaffolding workers twenty stories above the ground during the building of the New York Telephone Company building (nowVerizon Building), 1925
( Photo by Hulton Archive / Getty Images )
Lunch on a girder of the later Waldorf-Astoria Hotel on Park Avenue, New York City, November 1930
( pic by Keystone / Getty Images )
Pausing for a sandwich lunch, c. 1930
Hanging on a wrecking ball pulley while working on the Empire State Building, c. 1930
A man rests on a grinder at the 86th floor of the Empire State Building, New York City, September 1930
( pic by AP )
A group of steel workers standing on scaffolding 70 storeys high looking down over New York City from the GE Building (the centerpiece of Rockefeller Center), c. 1931
( picture by Horace Abrahams / Getty Images )
A man relaxes during his lunch break on a steel beam atop he RCA Building at Rockefeller Center, New York, September 1932
The photos of Charles C. Ebbets, shot on the construction of GE Building, 1932
( viaAnthony Luke )
A workman stands on a girder, probably in San Francisco, c. 1936
( Photo by General Photographic Agency / Getty Images )
Two roofers take a break for lunch in front of the spire of All Souls Church, London, c. 1940
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