Demolition Tightrope Act with Pick Axe, 1915

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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]