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'Lunch on a Beam' is now for everyone

 

Fancy yourself a dare-devil, willing to take a risk for an iconic picture? Well, now you don't have to be a real dare-devil, as the image above shows.

At Rockefeller Center, in New York, there's a new attraction at the Top of the Rock observation deck—an opportunity to risklessly replicate the famous 1932 photo of eleven construction workers eating lunch on a beam high over the city. The original, by an unknown photographer, appeared in the New York Herald-Tribune.

Charles Clyde Ebbets, born in 1905 in Gadsden, took this iconic photograph,

Visitors to Top of the Rock, of course, won't be suspended over the city; they are actually riding a beam mounted on a column that raises them 12 feet in the air and rotates to allow them best views out over the city while their pictures are taken.

The best part of every trip is realizing that it has upset your expectations

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