Spring Cleaning -- Painters using an electrically operated scaffold, called "spider staging," work on a cable high above the Manhattan side of the George Washington Bridge as part of a force of 50 carefully picked workmen who yesterday started a two-year painting job. The project will cost $150,000, including $35,000 for 11,000 gallons of paint. In background are apartment buildings along Riverside Drive, and below the workmen are the West Side Highway and the New York Central Railroad tracks. May 08, 1954. (Photo by AP Wirephoto).