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14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

Acrophobia who?

By Carly Tennes

Published 6 months ago in Wow

Though skyscrapers may be commonplace in any modern city, one question remains about the construction of our urban landscape that sometimes hits one hundred stories high: How did these guys not mess their pants? They, of course, have no fear of heights, but that doesn't make us any less queasy. 


From sky-high workers taking a nap to the painters tasked with giving the Eiffel Tower a nice shellac, here are 21 photos of old-school iron workers without a trace of acrophobia. 

  • 1

    “Men painting the top of the Woolworth Building 1930’s.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 2

    “A man repairs the antenna on the World Trade Center, NYC, 1979. Photo by Peter Kaplan.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 3

    “My dad took this photo of his coworkers working on a skyscraper- Late 80s.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 4

    “Carl Russell waving to his co-workers on the structural work of the 88th floor of the Empire State Building. Sep, 13. 1930.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 5

    “Construction workers from 1928 in Missouri.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 6

    “A construction worker carries a sack across a beam working on a 71-story skyscraper on 40 Wall Street, New York City, 1930.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 7

    “Iron Worker, Chicago, 1968.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 8

    “NYC iron workers, 1930s.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 9

    “My grandfather working on the construction of the Verrazano Bridge (1960).”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 10

    “Workers finished the final touches at EPCOT - opened 1982.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 11

    “Iron Worker on Manhattan Bridge, 1980s.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 12

    “My iron worker cousin building Boston in the 70s.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 13

    “An Iron Worker Enjoys a Cup of Joe While Building the CN Tower in Toronto, Ontario, Canada (1973).”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

  • 14

    “Iron workers moving a section of the World Trade Center antenna, 1979.”

    14 Vintage Photographs of Old-School Construction Workers

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