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New York City's Rockefeller Center opens 'The Beam' - a new ride that allows visitors to re-create this historic photo of death-defying construction workers lunching atop the skyline - but social media reactions are mixed...
Daily Mail ^ | 12/01/23 | Emma Saletta

Posted on 12/02/2023 3:48:45 AM PST by Libloather

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Nope.
1 posted on 12/02/2023 3:48:45 AM PST by Libloather
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To: Libloather

If I can do the rides on the Stratosphere in Las Vegas, I can do this.


2 posted on 12/02/2023 3:50:10 AM PST by Jonty30 (It turns out that I did not buy my cell phone for all the calls I might be missing at home.)
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My Great- Hrandfather helped to build the Empire Stateb Bulding. He founded the Ironworkers aunion there, and was likely the only Jewish Ironworker In NYC at the time.


3 posted on 12/02/2023 3:59:14 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Jonty30

Sorry for the spelling, I type to fast.


4 posted on 12/02/2023 3:59:48 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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To: Libloather

After a few weeks on the high steel you get used to it because worrying about it becomes tedious.


5 posted on 12/02/2023 4:00:03 AM PST by Berlin_Freeper
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To: cowboyusa

It sounds like that is something you might want to do to vicariously join your grandfather.


6 posted on 12/02/2023 4:04:44 AM PST by Jonty30 (It turns out that I did not buy my cell phone for all the calls I might be missing at home.)
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To: Libloather

You couldn’t even get me to step foot on that observation deck.


7 posted on 12/02/2023 4:11:59 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: Hot Tabasco

I’m the same way. My stomach gets queasy just looking at that picture, much less actually going out there to sit down and have lunch.

No way, no how..


8 posted on 12/02/2023 4:16:10 AM PST by GeorgiaDawg32
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To: Libloather

Absolutely ridiculous. I can think of better things to do with $34 like put food on the table.


9 posted on 12/02/2023 4:20:37 AM PST by NeverTyranny
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10 posted on 12/02/2023 4:23:40 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/sĀ²)
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To: Libloather
Some others for inspiration:

Empire-State-Building-1930

Check Out Steeple Standing Guy

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Kids, Don't Try This At Home

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11 posted on 12/02/2023 4:31:54 AM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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One More For Luck

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12 posted on 12/02/2023 4:36:01 AM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: GeorgiaDawg32

Decades ago I was at the Renaissance Center in downtown Detroit that has an outside elevator. The only way I could ride it to the top was with my nose against the door......


13 posted on 12/02/2023 4:36:29 AM PST by Hot Tabasco
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To: justme4now

those are the people that built this country. The White working class, and the pictures are the proof.


14 posted on 12/02/2023 4:42:18 AM PST by KobraKai
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But But the immigrants and the blacks!ā˜¹ļø


15 posted on 12/02/2023 4:50:34 AM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: Libloather
The CONVID-era version.


16 posted on 12/02/2023 4:56:34 AM PST by C210N (Mundus vult decipi, ergo decipiatur.)
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Well my Great- Granfather was an Immigrant.
17 posted on 12/02/2023 5:10:57 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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But .. was he one of the Contributing Illegals?šŸ¤”šŸ˜„


18 posted on 12/02/2023 5:31:38 AM PST by justme4now (Our Right's are God given and I don't need permission from politicians or courts to exercise them!)
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To: Libloather

Watching a Harold Lloyd film would be cheaper. And funnier.


19 posted on 12/02/2023 5:38:54 AM PST by FLNittany (Autotune is jealous of Karen Carpenter)
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To: justme4now

He came in 1911, so yes.


20 posted on 12/02/2023 5:43:42 AM PST by cowboyusa (YESHUA IS KING OF AMERICA! DEATH TO MARXISM AND LEFTISM! AMERICA, COWBOY UP!)
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