#21 aug.

[newyorkthegoldenage]

This young man from Austin, Texas is making good use of his summer vacation by learning, by the sweat of his brow, how tons of steel become giant skyscrapers, August 21, 1925. He is an iron worker on the new 15-story physics building being constructed at Columbia University. Besides not being afraid to balance himself atop the highest girders, the student iron worker is quite a boxer, fighting under the name of "Wary" Wade, the proceeds of the fight going towards paying his way through college.

Photo: Bettmann Archive/Getty Images/Fine Art America

[newyorkthegoldenage]

Proprietor Ben Lewanda loads up a toy electric freight train with a sundae and sodas at the counter of his sandwich shop in Brooklyn on August 21, 1951. Food orders were delivered to customers on an electric train that traveled from the serving counter to the booths.

Photo: Robert Kradin for the AP