JF Ptak Science Books Quick Post
There was a job to do in Chicago, and these men did it–how it all worked out safely accomplished, I do not know, because the episode is gut-wrenching just looking at the photo. Not much can be said here except, “oh, wow”.
And for the record they are removing a wall from a mostly-demolished building, the last wall standing, built against its neighbor. And what these guys did six stories up was swing a pickaxe to remove the wall beneath ,them, all the way down, brick-by-brick.
[Image source: Popular Mechanics, August,, 1915, pg 323]