Give yourself a break: "Behind The Scenes In A Chicago Skyscraper In 1980s"

[gristy]

You'll find this clip to be a wonderful and warm reminisce when anything was possible. It's a pretty short clip - I'm sure I saw a longer version a year or so ago but a search has not turned it up.

David Hoffman was the filmmaker, and here's his comments on the youtube page:

I have got to say, this was a fun job. Just going into the Chicago Sears classic skyscraper ad knocking on people's doors and asking them if we could film what they were doing at that moment was surprisingly interesting. Most people's jobs were interesting and people seemed involved. The jobs were probably more interesting then than they are today if I had the same responsibility to knock on people's doors in any skyscraper in America.

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[Fla Dem]

1. Worked in the Pru Tower (52 stories)in Boston during the same period.

Worked on the same green screen, white lettering computers and smoking was allowed.

[hunter]

2. Replacing light bulbs...

... how many jobs have been lost to light emitting diodes?

Incandescent light bulbs last about 1,200 hours, LED lamps last ten to twenty times longer. In a large office building changing incandescent bulbs could have been a full time job.

Everybody thought computers would reduce the drudgery of "paperwork" but they only made it worse. It seems that jobs that used to require a single paper form to fill out now have seven forms to fill out -- five on the computer and two on paper.

I have a couple Polaroid cameras and backs that use the old peel apart instant film, sadly that film is no longer mass produced by Fujifilm and handmade film packs are expensive.