Steel Yourself!
It may not look it, but safety conditions for these 1956 workers were far beyondtold readers, was “a Mohawk Indian from Canada who ... can draw $3.95 an hour for his nerve and skill.” Monte’s father had been one of those Empire State builders, and he admitted that working on skyscrapers was “enough to put gray hairs on anyone’s head.” The building under construction still stands today, more than 60 years later, at 485 Lexington Avenue.
