Al Roker, Hoda Kotb, Savannah Guthrie, Craig Melvin and Carson Daly sat atop Rockefeller Center’s “The Beam” experience
The Today the hosts of the show decided to go back in time on Thursday morning!
Association members Today the team went to the top of Rockefeller Center, where they recreated the iconic 1932 photo “Lunch on Top of a Skyscraper.”
Al Roker, Hoda Kotb, Craig Melvin, Savannah Guthrie and Carson Daly posed for “The Beam” — a new experience that allows tourists to channel the classic image of workers eating lunch on a steel beam high above the city while constructing a building.
The quintet raised their arms and smiled for the camera – and even enjoyed a snack in a bag – high in the air.
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The original photograph, taken in September 1932 during construction of the building, shows 11 construction workers undauntedly enjoying their meal break.
The new attraction targets that exact moment and invites visitors to sit on a beam placed on the 69th floor, 800 feet above the street. It then lifts them even higher and rotates 180 degrees for a unique view above the building’s observation deck, according to Travel + free time.
During Today the crew’s latest recording time, Kotb, 59, compared “The Beam” to “being on a ride at Universal.”
Today’s show crew enjoys a bite to eat over Manhattan.
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“I think we should make a show out of here,” said Roker, 69, before Kotb added, “I think it’s a great place to have lunch.”
“The view is amazing. It really makes you think about hardworking Americans almost 100 years ago,” said Daly, 50. “I have news for people at home who are watching this — a beam under us? Not so wide.”
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‘Lunch on top of a skyscraper’, 1932.
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Rockefeller Center owner Tishman Speyer said Travel + free time in a statement earlier this week that the beam is part of a “top-to-bottom reimagining” of the site and offers “the city’s best unobstructed views of its most famous landmarks.”
“After visiting the Top of the Rock lookout, visitors can spend time exploring a re-imagined, iconic landmark imbued with the same ambition and creativity of the people who built this ‘city within a city’ nearly 100 years ago,” the statement said.
Tickets for Top of the Rock, which cost between $40 and $55 for adults, will now offer a beam seating option for an additional $25, which includes a photo op.
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Besides literally sitting above Manhattan, Today the team shared a few other special moments on air in recent days. Earlier this week, Jenna Bush Hager invited her father, former President George W. Bush, on air during Today with Hoda and Jenna to get his approval for a new side project between her and co-host Kotb.
After Bush Hager, 42, revealed on air that her dad said she was “hitting the high notes like I taught you” on her new holiday single, “A Carefree Christmas,” featuring Kotb, she decided to call him to proved.
“I thought you were all cute,” President Bush said. “I thought your dance moves were well choreographed and I thought the sound guy did a good job making sure those voices were muffled.”
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