Incredible colorised footage from 1929 of construction workers on the Chrysler Building in New York.
I’m just impressed that it has audio
If you wanted solid, definitive proof that the past did, in fact, happen, here it is.
I’m surprised the structure was able to support the weight of every set of BRASS FUCKING BALLS on all of those construction workers. Pre-safety gear/OCEA was wilding man.
The Chrysler Building had zero fatalities during construction. But the osha violations hurt my soul
TERRIFYING
Many of these men were Mohawk Native Americans! The Mohawk had a reputation as ironworkers and worked on most of the big interwar-era construction projects in NYC, also including the Empire State Building and the George Washington Bridge.
A lot of these dudes probably fought in WWI so that explains why they give absolutely 0 fucks about heights lmao
cant believe the deep philosophical question “what happens if we lived forever” was plausibly answered by the absolute galaxy brained author of 17776 saying “football”
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