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I absolutely loved being a NYC Union Ironworker, working with awesome men and women stealing pieces of sky, creating buildings that cast a shadow a mile long every sunrise and sunset.
Comment by justadumbwelder1 at 26/01/2025 at 16:55 UTC
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One of the ballsy arn heads too! If you are 70 something, you were doing it long before rat lines and safety harnesses. Im a pipe guy, but i love the feeling of freedom when i have to walk steel to get from weld to weld. Glad you are still around.
Comment by RemonterLeTemps at 27/01/2025 at 09:45 UTC
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You expressed that quite poetically, and it gave me an insight I never had before. So thank you!
My husband's great-uncle was an ironworker in Chicago, back when 'skyscrapers' were still a fairly new concept (early 1900s). He was a big man (especially for a Greek), but according to all who knew him, he walked 'surefootedly, with catlike grace'. And lived to 98 years old, too!