Window Cleaners on The Empire State Building - 1938

Window Cleaners on The Empire State Building - 1938, from the British Pathe newsreel "Paneful Business"

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[TheAmeenGuy]

you'd think they would fall from the heavy weight of their cojones 

[ferrarithedude]

*face palm* you can look out the window right? and stand next to the window FROM THE INSIDE....

oh your logic is quite funny!

[Dharma818]

Video seems like a Bioshock.

[Pedalklunk Doofy]

Sorry pal, wtc was finished in the 1970's. Try again.

[Martin Kincl]

"Noone can deny that a window cleaner is not attached to his work" - nice pun

[wait4JusT1c3]

People who built it didn't have safety rope so that's more scary.

[Jahrell Chavis]

sorry to tell you this but the world trade centers was not built until the 70s

[dino cali]

those guys got guts.

[waldoistwisted]

Safety harnesses!? Not in my day lad

[KillaBeesOnDaSwarm]

LOOOL look at the cameraman, he's the one taking the biggest risk there

[PaloLP]

00:29 World Trade Center ♥

[drboogersnot]

Whatever they were getting paid, it wasn't enough...