The skyscraper rises crooked but proud, every beam stamped with mushroom fingerprints. When the final brick is set, the helmets come off and the celebrations begin. Sawdust and cement dust give way to silk dresses, polished shoes, and glittering pearls. The crazy mushrooms trade their hammers for cocktails and flood the night with jazz and laughter. The clamor of the worksite becomes the rhythm of the dance floor. The crazy mushrooms have stepped straight into the roaring twenties.
recreation of the Lunch atop a Skyscraper black and white photograph from 1932 with eleven whacky crazy anthropomorphic shiitake mushrooms dressed as 1930s construction workers sitting on a steel beam of the RCA Building, 850 feet above the ground during the construction of Rockefeller Center in Manhattan, ...