{"id":23510,"date":"2018-09-07T23:43:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-07T22:43:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23510"},"modified":"2018-09-07T23:45:22","modified_gmt":"2018-09-07T22:45:22","slug":"lunch-atop-a-skyscaper-so-many-questions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=23510","title":{"rendered":"“Lunch Atop A Skyscaper” – so many questions …"},"content":{"rendered":"

You know this iconic photograph<\/a>.<\/p>\n

We know it was taken\u00a0840 feet (260 meters) above the streets of New York City during the building of the Rockefeller Centre – a building I have visited a couple of times – on 20 September 1932.<\/p>\n

But who took the picture?\u00a0It was credited to Charles C. Ebbets in 2003, but there are at least three other candidates.<\/p>\n

And who are those guys? We only know for sure two names of the 11 men:\u00a0Joseph Eckner, third from the left, and Joe Curtis, third from the right.<\/p>\n

This evening, I watched a PBS documentary that tried to answer these questions – speculating about two more of the 11 men in particular – and explored the importance of the image.<\/p>\n