# Commercials you don't hate

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**Category:** Cafe Society\
**Tags:** commercials-ads\
**Created:** [March 20, 2016, 6:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672 "2016-03-20T18:19:24Z")\
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**Post date:** [August 18, 2021, 6:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/commercials-you-dont-hate/749672/774 "2021-08-18T18:49:01Z")

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“Lunch atop a Skyscraper”, the skyscraper being part of the Rockefeller Center. I have read that it was a staged photo-op, although they were real laborers.

ETA: Another doper links to a fine Smithsonian article

> [@Afraid of heights? I dare you to watch this video.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/afraid-of-heights-i-dare-you-to-watch-this-video/763995/3):
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> I have a truly visceral reaction watching this. It stirs a hardwired primal fear. I don’t understand how anyone can do this, but many people do. This classic photo of steelworkers sitting on a beam causes a similar reaction in me, though not quite as strong.

~Max

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