  Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 1198 Registered: 11-2005 |
This is amaaaaaazing. See video of the construction of the Eaton Tower/David Broderick Tower (the whale mural building). The ironworkers are literally balancing on beams 30 floors up as they install girders. Simply incredible. Plus, as a bonus, there's a dancing flapper. WHAT MORE CAN YOU ASK FOR? Link: http://www.lib.wayne.edu/resou rces/digital_library/det_news/ video.php?vid=3R2_03 | ||
Ray1936 Member Username: Ray1936 Post Number: 3091 Registered: 01-2005 |
That whole series of Detroit News film clips from the 1920's is amazing. There's about 300 of them. | ||
Mackinaw Member Username: Mackinaw Post Number: 4729 Registered: 02-2005 |
Thank you for sharing! Amazing to see the Broderick and other nearby buildings under construction, and to see the bustling city below in the background. You see how much effort and risk was put into building these amazing old skyscrapers (let alone any old building), and it should really make you want to preserve them. Not only are they beautiful and a testament to our history, but they are feats of engineering and labor. Not that building a building in 2008 isn't hard to do, but it was even harder then (and the results tended to be of such greater quality). | ||
Jsmyers Member Username: Jsmyers Post Number: 2004 Registered: 12-2003 |
My thread on the videos somehow got forgotten: https://www.atdetroit.net/forum/mes sages/5/136973.html | ||
Rhymeswithrawk Member Username: Rhymeswithrawk Post Number: 1199 Registered: 11-2005 |
Didn't mean to stiff ya, Jsmyers. (That's what she said.) | ||
Eriedearie Member Username: Eriedearie Post Number: 1414 Registered: 08-2007 |
Thanks for sharing those links! The guys that built the Detroit skyscrapers weren't called "Men of Steel" for nothing. I did not detect a single safety harness in the bunch. They had to have had nerves of steel! And I enjoyed watching the possible "1st Dream Cruise" video!  | ||
Patrick Member Username: Patrick Post Number: 5372 Registered: 10-2003 |
Wow, thanks so much for sharing. Whenever I see an old film clip from that time period, it is usually from NYC or Chicago. | ||
Digitalvision Member Username: Digitalvision Post Number: 795 Registered: 11-2003 |
If you guys also want to see a newsreel loop, I was at the Detroit Historical museum this weekend and there was a great one - some of the clips of the Penobscot are amazing as it looks like anything you'd see in NY or Chicago. I wish more people would go (or even know about) the historical museum - they had a thing on Parducci too, but I think they could of had some more photos, etc. The old theatre signs on the 3rd floor are amazing, too :-) | ||
623kraw Member Username: 623kraw Post Number: 932 Registered: 10-2003 |
Good stuff! | ||
401don Member Username: 401don Post Number: 413 Registered: 11-2007 |
The 7 part PBS documentary "New York" by Ric Burns had some amazing film of the Empire State Building construction. Watching those guys 100 stories up with icicles hanging off their faces as the winter winds nearly blew them off the beam. Meanwhile the steel was still warm, having been shipped from Pennsylvania the night before. | ||
Evelyn Member Username: Evelyn Post Number: 215 Registered: 02-2005 |
How cool! Thanks for the link, Rymeswithrawk! I had forgotten the Reuther has video as well as photos and archived documents. Think I like the “old and new” shots of Detroit, and that precarious-looking balloon ride, the best. Til I get to the next page. |
