Note: Watch your volume, video starts with hammering one of the giant eagle heads into place.

This is some archival footage of workers constructing the Chrysler Building during 1929 and 1930. Not only are they up there with no safety gear on, most of them are wearing dress shirts and ties under their work clothes. What a work ethic! I can only imagine the balls it would take to climb that building with no safety harness, but I’d estimate about the size of King Kong’s when he climbed it. “King Kong climbed the Empire State Building, not the Chrysler Building.” WELL SHIT. So, did anybody else get sweaty palms as soon as they hit play? Because I know I did. AND hairy palms. “Put your penis away.” I think it’s the danger that excites me!

Keep going for the video while I complain to HR that the office is a single degree too cold for my taste.

Source: Geekologie – Video Of The Safety Gearless Workers Constructing The Chrysler Building 1929 – 1930