Cables and Girders Frame Color:White Ninth Avenue in 1940 and

Ninth Avenue in 1940 and Second Avenue in 1942

They needed a man on a wire to inaugurate the resumed construction on the world's largest Gothic cathedral

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Cables and Girders Frame Color:White Ninth Avenue in 1940 and"A cordon of police reserves was posted in and near Times Square to protect the spectators of a giant feat," The Times wrote in 1926. "A modern Hercules, steam in his nostrils and steel in his muscles, was lifting an unprecedented height and an unprecedented weight, so far as building operations go. A truss 144 tons heavy was being hosted with groans and snots to its place over the auditorium of the new Paramount Building at Forty third Street and