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- BillyG123, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5my stepdad did this his whole life in NYC, and retired to Florida... but basically he came home and just watched TV 'til he fell asleep, maybe that's how he saved the money, cause we sure never had any...
- Chompy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5Yes, it was pretty dangerous.. in 1932, when that article appears to have been written.
- stisaac, on 10/12/2007, -3/+5Washing sky-scrapper windows is like a roller coaster ride, it seems dangerous but its actually perfectly safe. Driving a car on a highway remains the most dangerous thing we humans regularly do. While you'd die if you fell 1800 feet, chances are you'd also die if you fell 20 feet, and regardless, with multiple backup systems the chances of falling are very, very slim.
- JasonQG, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I look straight in the mirror
Watch it come clearer
I look like a painter behind all this grease
But painting's creating
And I'm just erasing
A crystal-clear canvas is my masterpiece - marillion, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1I work in a far more modest building, but the same folks who clean our windows clean the taller buildings. Now they descend on double runs of nylon rope - in case one breaks. The harness technology has improved, they can clean about four windows wide then descend to the next floor. Takes about three hours to do a whole building side. Scares the hell out of you if you don't know their coming.
- MontyZooma, on 10/12/2007, -3/+4That's crazy. I wouldn't have the legs for that kind of work. Takes nerves of steel and mine are made of rubber these days.
- Buddhist, on 10/12/2007, -1/+2It's still dangerous now, especially considering our buildings are substantially higher now than in the 20s/30s, when this may have been written (could have also been the 50s, but I doubt it). While we do have more mechanisms for protecting the window washers, it's still really dangerous to be swaying around on that rickety thing they use, especially on huge buildings such as the Sears Tower.
- bwdoug, on 10/11/2007, -0/+0The writer explains that the team is split up into four groups of two. Each group has 25 floors to clean and the team that finishes first is rewarded... they get to clean the top two floors.
- ph33rm3, on 10/12/2007, -1/+1i'm not sure if you've heard of it before, but there's a really usefull tool called Google, and you can look for certain websites and yes, you guessed it, PICTURES too, cool eh?
http://images.google.com/images?sourceid=navclient-ff&ie=UTF-8&rlz=1B2GGGL_enCA175&q=window washer - stisaac, on 10/12/2007, -5/+3Sorry for the second post.
What I meant to say is, chances are you'd also die if you fell 20 feet off of a house you were painting. - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -8/+1No pictures no digg.
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