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Would you try out the new Sears Tower Ledge?

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  • 07-01-2009 4:37 PM

    Would you try out the new Sears Tower Ledge?

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    http://cbs2chicago.com/local/sears.tower.ledge.2.1066906.html

     

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    Taking a trip to the Sears Tower Skydeck will now be even more of a vertigo-inducing experience. The media is getting a preview today.

    The new Sears Tower Ledge was unveiled on Wednesday. It will open to the public on Thursday.

    The Ledge is a set of clear glass walkways that extend out 4.3 feet from the Skydeck windows. Its four enclosures look down 1,353 feet over Wacker Drive and the Chicago River's South Branch.

    The glass is three layers thick, and each layer is a half-inch thick. The balconies can to hold about five tons.

     



    Sears Tower officials said the inspiration for the balconies came from the hundreds of forehead prints visitors left behind on Skydeck windows every week. 


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  • 07-01-2009 4:40 PM In reply to

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    NOOOOOOOOO Wayyyyyyyyyyy!!!!!!!!!!!!! ! I had to look away this morning when they had a guy standing on it and telling him to jump up and down,,he refused.

  • 07-01-2009 4:46 PM In reply to

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    You couldn't even pay me to do it!


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  • 07-01-2009 4:50 PM In reply to

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     NO!

    "It's going to be all right."
    Miyuki Hatoyama

  • 07-01-2009 4:51 PM In reply to

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    I don't know - I'd like to think I have the nerve, but when push comes to shove (hopefully not literally) I might not.

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  • 07-01-2009 5:03 PM In reply to

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     Uh that would be a big N O!



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  • 07-01-2009 5:23 PM In reply to

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    Oh HELL no!!! I got sick looking at the pictures!  Ick!

  • 07-01-2009 5:31 PM In reply to

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     Absolutely never !    I get dizzy standing on a ladder - and not the top rung either.!

  • 07-01-2009 5:33 PM In reply to

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    Oh YES I would... You all are a bunch of fraidy cats...LOL 

  • 07-01-2009 5:38 PM In reply to

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    nope........ no way!!!

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  • 07-01-2009 5:52 PM In reply to

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    mammaw123:

    Oh HELL no!!! I got sick looking at the pictures!  Ick!

     

     

    My sentiments exactly!

    Reminds me of that "thing" over the Grand Canyon with the glass floor.  





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  • 07-01-2009 7:22 PM In reply to

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     I wonder what that's going to cost....We paid $18 back in Feb. just to take the elevator up to the observation deck...so no, I don't feel the need to go again, and there is no way you'd get me on that ledge.

  • 07-01-2009 7:36 PM In reply to

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    GracieBlue2:

    Oh YES I would... You all are a bunch of fraidy cats...LOL 

    I'd do it!

  • 07-01-2009 7:44 PM In reply to

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     You bet that would be great.

    Going up there Chicago later this month I might do it. If we get down town.



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  • 07-01-2009 7:45 PM In reply to

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    Um...no!

     

     

    GracieBlue2:
    You all are a bunch of fraidy cats

    MEOW!
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