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BUILDINGS I HAVE CLIMBED

In the mid 1980's, I worked for about fourteen months for a high-rise window cleaning company, traveling the
South. There are two ways to clean windows on a high-rise; one way is called staging, where you are lowered on a "stage" by cables and electric motors attached at either end of the stage. The other way is to rappel down using a rappelling rack and a bosun's seat. I don't like stages and most of these buildings I rappelled down. I can't find an image, nor remember a lot of them, but here are a few that I have found. I'll add more as I find them.

 

A BANK BUILDING IN CHARLOTTE, NC
(THIS ONE WAS DONE WITH A STAGE)


HOLIDAY INN
CHARLESTON, SC
I did a few of the round Holiday Inns. The only part that needed done was the restaurant at the top. The cool part is, the windows are recessed so that you actually have to swing yourself  into the recess as you drop yourself onto the pitched landing. As I was doing this maneuver on this building, my squeegee came out of it's holder and fell, crashing through the windshield of a Cadillac. 


 

 

 


BUILDING ON THE LEFT. THE POFF FEDERAL BUILDING IN ROANOKE, VA.


FORMER HOLIDAY INN
RALEIGH, NC


DOWNTOWN WINSTON SALEM, NC
 I was on most every building in this shot. The one in the center that looks like the Empire State Building is the RJ  Reynolds headquarters and the one building I was one more than any.


 

 

THE YACHTSMAN, MYRTLE BEACH, SC. CENTER TOWER.
This was the best gig ever. They put two of us up in a suite and the job was supposed to take two days. Because of the winds, as we got about halfway down, we would get blown all over the building. It ended up taking 7 days. Every time we would hit the ground, bikini clad hotties would surround us and at night when we hit the bars, people would say "You're the guys climbing at the Yachtsman" and buy us our drinks.


WACHOVIA BUILDING
ROANOKE, VA