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Lunch atop a skyscraper fake11/11/2022 ![]() ![]() For instance, the picture is often misidentified as having been made atop the Empire State Building it was actually taken during construction of Rockefeller Center. Here are the unsung heroes of Manhattan.īut as the Ó Cualáin brothers dug into the claim accompanying the picture they saw in that County Galway pub - namely, that the photo showed two local men, Sonny Glynn and Matty O’Shaughnessy, among the 11 on the girder in the sky - they discovered that little to nothing was truly known about the photograph itself. Here, the picture seems to say, are the immigrants who built, by hand, the greatest skyline in the world. For eight decades, from the time the photo was made in 1932 until brothers Seán and Eamonn Ó Cualáin came across a print of the photo in a pub in the west of Ireland in 2009, the picture was embraced as a stirring illustration of the creation of modern New York. Part detective story, part homage to the American immigrant experience and, ultimately, a tribute to the simple dignity of hard work, the documentary film Men at Lunchexamines the mysteries behind one of the most recognizable images of the 20th century: eleven men casually perched atop a steel beam hundreds of feet above Manhattan. ![]()
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