The British Pathe newsreel archive has just uploaded “Paneful Business”, a newsreel about window cleaners working on the Empire State Building in 1938. The iconic 102-storey skyscraper has 6500 windows, which were cleaned by attaching a harness onto ‘eye bolts’ aside each window.
Just in case you think the process is old-fashioned, here’s New York window cleaner Patrick Shields using the same method to clean a pre-war building, in 2012.
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