what's the name for the pic of new york skyline with workmen sitting in front of it?

starbuck · 28-05-2005, 10:23 PM

Was watching extreme makeover, home edition earlier. They put something in a bedroom which I thought was cool. It was a picture of a skyline(I'm guessing new york) with workmen sitting in front of it on a bench type thing(can't remember exact name for it).

I know it's quite famous but anyone know the name of it?

schmunk · 28-05-2005, 10:32 PM

You mean the workmen building the Empire State Building...?

"Men on a Girder Having Lunch"

starbuck · 28-05-2005, 11:04 PM

exactly the one. cheers.

MD · 29-05-2005, 07:24 AM

its available cheapy from Ikea

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Neo_VR · 29-05-2005, 02:08 PM

Originally Posted by schmunk

You mean the workmen building the Empire State Building...?

"Men on a Girder Having Lunch"

More like "men on a girder with giant kahoonas! "

or "men escape mental ward of hospital"

Jiff Lemon · 30-05-2005, 08:41 AM

We have that Pic in our break out area at work; Its to remind the chaps that having a break can be a dangerous thing......

Oakey · 30-05-2005, 11:10 PM

Are you sure that's the Empire State Building? Because that looks like Central Park in the background, and Central Park is a lot further away;

5lab · 31-05-2005, 06:51 AM

Originally Posted by Oakey

Are you sure that's the Empire State Building? Because that looks like Central Park in the background, and Central Park is a lot further away;

yes, it definately is. the park is still that far away, but remember when the esb was built it completely dwarfed everyone else in the area.. the other buildings were 'only' 10 or 20 storys high, which meant that you can see the park fine..

i went there in feb, and watched the sunset from the top... absolutely stunning imo..

Oakey · 31-05-2005, 08:33 AM

Originally Posted by 5lab

yes, it definately is. the park is still that far away, but remember when the esb was built it completely dwarfed everyone else in the area.. the other buildings were 'only' 10 or 20 storys high, which meant that you can see the park fine..

i went there in feb, and watched the sunset from the top... absolutely stunning imo..

I don't think it is the ESB. In the B&W photo you can quite clearly see Central Park is much closer and larger than in the colour photo, of which I took from the top of the ESB just 2 months ago.

The hotel we stayed in was 30 stories high and that was built in 1929.

[edit] Accoring to this site;

http://www.art.com/asp/sp-asp/_/pd--...City_1932.htm#

It's the Rockefeller Centre;

schmunk · 31-05-2005, 09:39 AM

OK, I stand corrected.

However, this IS the Empire State Building. Loonies, these guys...

Oakey · 31-05-2005, 09:58 AM

Mentalists

Allen · 31-05-2005, 10:03 AM

There's another one that's an ariel view of a couple of people working right at the top of the ESB and it really gives people with a fear of heights a heart attack! You can really see how square everything is when looking directly down, quite scary to work that high I would imagine!

Oakey · 31-05-2005, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by Allen

There's another one that's an ariel view of a couple of people working right at the top of the ESB and it really gives people with a fear of heights a heart attack! You can really see how square everything is when looking directly down, quite scary to work that high I would imagine!

Bah, you want heights? I give you heights!

Allen · 31-05-2005, 12:50 PM

That's actually less scary to look at than the one I'm on about. Gonna do a quick search for it...

TiG · 31-05-2005, 01:01 PM

No need to worry about height there oakey look at all the cotton wool you can fall into

TiG

Allen · 31-05-2005, 01:26 PM

Oh yeah, and dare we ask what all that "stuff" on the window is? Get a bit excited about being that high did we? Wanted to join the solo mile high club?

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