25 Photos of Construction Workers on Tall Bridges
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Today we salute one of the hardest low-wage professions in history: construction workers on tall bridges. Without these bridge construction workers, we’d have to cross bodies of water using nothing but a giant ramp. To illustrate the difficulties involved with being a construction worker for a tall bridge, we found 25 vertigo-inducing pictures of these men and women in action:
- If you’ve ever wondered if this economic crash is as bad as the Great Depression, ask yourself, “am I standing on top of a bridge for minimum wage?”
- This photo of painters working on the Brooklyn Bridge makes us wonder if Michaelangelo would’ve beengood at this
- The Golden Gate Bridge provides a great view of both downtown San Francisco and the grim specter ofdeath
- Nets prevented Golden Gate workers from falling onto Alcatraz
Memorial Bridge in Delaware was a great job for people who wanted to combine solid work with constant suicide opportunity
- If you’ve ever wondered if this economic crash is as bad as the Great Depression, ask yourself, “am I standing on top of a bridge for minimum wage, right now?”
On Ambassador Bridge, gusts of wind can turn a worker's open jacket into a kite
- The aging Bay Bridge is always a fun source of peril for workers and drivers, alike
- Warning: The Mackinac Bridge has not been tested for Kraken attacks
- Personally, we would wear a tighter fitting hat when working on the Benjamin Franklin bridge
- These Bay Bridge workers are measuring how fast their vomit is going when it hits the water
- We’d be more impressed if all these George Washington Bridge workers were planking
- Workers creating a side route on the Bay Bridge. This bridge has been more trouble to the Bay Area than the hippie revolution
- We’re surprised the Bay Bridge ever got constructed, with the workers having to stop and pose for pictures all the time
- These Bay Bridge workers’ only consolation is that they’re not working on the Hoover Dam
- Even though it’s only halfway built, we’re surprised there’s no Bay Bridge traffic
- The Chinese Hezhang Bridge might thin the population more than one child laws
- The Tacoma Narrows Bridge welcomes travelers by warmly failing to collapse
- Chinese workers scaled the Haizhu Bridge to protest labor conditions, wisely choosing a spot where they could not be run over by tanks
- Seeing as how no one will ever get this close to that part of the Anzhaite Long-Span Suspension Bridge, we would’ve skipped the touch-up job
- Chinese officials must keep tight watch on Aizhai Bridge workers, or else they’ll build a bridge to Japan
- We’re pretty sure those are Tower Bridge workers, but what if that’s the pedestrian walkway?
- We know this Bay Bridge worker’s crazy. That doesn’t help us figure out if he’s from Oakland or San Francisco
- This is the Brooklyn Bridge, so there’s a chance that guy up there is getting mugged
- Rule number one of being a Sydney Harbor Bridge worker: Don’t make other workers nervous by standing right behind them
- Only the Golden Gate would allow people to risk their lives for Gay Pride
