No hard hats, not harnesses. Just 5 deaths on the most ambitious building project til that point.
The workers, 3400 strong, were paid double what they were usually paid- about $3.75 a day, some more, some less.
13.5 Months to Build, Only 5 Deaths
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Another nail in the “slaves built this country” bullshit narrative coffin…
Couldn’t get a building permit in 13.5 months today.
Couldn’t get an Environmemtal Impact study completed, much less reviewed, in 13.5 months today.
Finished just in time for The Great Depression.
because they weren’t a bunch of pussy ass bitches that’s why it was done in a timely manner.
Thanks! for seeing AMERICA. LOVE YOU, BUDDY!
Nixon did many bad things! EPA was near the top.
Amazing, and still a tourist attraction.
USA, still the best.
American Indians were/are some of the most fearless high iron Ironworkers.
If Pete Butthead was secreary of transportation back then, they all would have died.
@Sippin Coffee – Don’t forget Native and Historical sites…
How would it feel if your loved one was considered, “ONLY ONE of FIVE” killed???
TRF: American Indians did a lot of the work on the Verrazano Narrows Bridge as well.
It’s may be a tourist attraction.
Those iron workers were dressed nicer than most young women dress to go shopping today.
That’s because the Daleks were pushing the workers to get it done before the electrical storm!
I wonder if the women on that job were only paid .70c for every dollar the men were paid…
we could never build it today….we could never go to the moon today….we could not get a salk polio vaccine today….we could not build the panama canal today…..we can’t have integration today….we can’t believe anything the gov’t tells us today…..we can’t believe anything the media tells us today…..this is not going to end well……invest in pitchforks and torches…….or tar and feathers, if you’re wimpy…..
The design and execution is beyond my comprehension.
All possible thanks to “proud” Union’s. 😉
Thanks Mr. Big!
Checked in before leaving to go where they block the you tube. Glad I did, caught myself “helping” a number of times. Some things are hard to watch without your body making the movements to help them.
Also amazing the extremes of good an bad that the human species is capable of…