Elevator & Escalator Club - "I LOVE THE ELEVATOR AND THE BUTTONS AND THE SOUNDS TOO"

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dunbrine47 said:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=f7VwnijyVigNow this is how you make an elevator video automatically more interesting.
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The only way elevators can be interesting is like this:
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there is a youtube review of the elevator in the store I work in. I learned the make and model of it! spoiler: it got an overall negative review, to the surprise of no one working here.

it has like 35 views and I'm 99% sure they're all of store employees sharing it with each other and laughing.

the first thing I thought of when I saw it was, "literally, not-joking autism".
 
toothpick said:
there is a youtube review of the elevator in the store I work in. I learned the make and model of it! spoiler: it got an overall negative review, to the surprise of no one working here.

it has like 35 views and I'm 99% sure they're all of store employees sharing it with each other and laughing.

the first thing I thought of when I saw it was, "literally, not-joking autism".
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At least these people don't form their own elevator compliance committee to test/rate working elevators like it's a public concern at this point.
 
Trilby said:
At least these people don't form their own elevator compliance committee to test/rate working elevators like it's a public concern at this point.
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I was thinking more of a full-blown reviews website. Complete with clickbait news articles.

"Unbelievable! The Downtown Macy's got New Elevators and You Won't Believe Which Buttons They Used."
"Sheer Terror! The Elevator in the Second Street Parking Garage Needs More Hydraulic Fluid."
"World's Luckiest Person: This Homeless Man Has Been Living in an Elevator Machine Room for the Past Week."
 
JFKdestroyer said:
I was thinking more of a full-blown reviews website. Complete with clickbait news articles.

"Unbelievable! The Downtown Macy's got New Elevators and You Won't Believe Which Buttons They Used."
"Sheer Terror! The Elevator in the Second Street Parking Garage Needs More Hydraulic Fluid."
"World's Luckiest Person: This Homeless Man Has Been Living in an Elevator Machine Room for the Past Week."
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Oh I bet. No doubt a highlight would be vintage elevators in operation if they get permission to go into places where they might be used privately (a former Macy's location in my downtown has a bank of elevators still available, but the place is now an apartment building).
 
I googled my own college which has barely 1,000 students and one of the results on the first page is an elevator video
 
I miss the smell of old school fancy department store elevators (specifically Simpson's and Eaton's in Canada). I'm not sure if they had a custom scent sprayed into the elevators but I think the smell had something to do with a chemical in the kind of super crinkly department store plastic bags that aren't made anymore (probably because they weren't biodegradable or were causing frogs to become gay or something like that) mixed with the smells of the various fragrances in the gigantic cosmetic sections on the ground floors of these mostly-long-disappeared department store chains.

Canada still has one old school department store chain left, Hudson's Bay Company, but the elevators just don't smell the same as they used to. Most of the time I ride elevators these days, they're at transit stations and... uhh... they often do have a distinctive smell but it's not exactly a pleasant one and it's often not that hard to identify (rhymes with "Murine").

Hiace_Erotica.lit said:
I wonder what these elevator nuts think of paternosters.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=Ro3Fc_yG3p0
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Doesn't one of the universities in Oxford, England still have a paternoster or two?

EDIT: There was one in the Attenborough Tower of the Univeristy of Leicester which was shut down in December 2017 due to lack of new parts being made, however, according to the same article, there are still Paternosters in operation in Britain at the University of Sheffield's Arts Tower and at University of Essex's Albert Sloman Library.
 
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sasazuka said:
I miss the smell of old school fancy department store elevators (specifically Simpson's and Eaton's in Canada). I'm not sure if they had a custom scent sprayed into the elevators but I think the smell had something to do with a chemical in the kind of super crinkly department store plastic bags that aren't made anymore (probably because they weren't biodegradable or were causing frogs to become gay or something like that) mixed with the smells of the various fragrances in the gigantic cosmetic sections on the ground floors of these mostly-long-disappeared department store chains.
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OH, GOD, memories..
being old as fuck and in that area, i've been in those stores more than a couple times. i think it was the simpsons store with the big janky elevator and it was at least five or six floors?

the electronics and toys section were a god damned wonderland. but the building itself was all sorts of cool. i seem to recall pneumatic tube capsule things all over the place, as well.


sasazuka said:
Doesn't one of the universities in Oxford, England still have a paternoster or two?
EDIT: There was one in the Attenborough Tower of the Univeristy of Leicester which was shut down in December 2017 due to lack of new parts being made, however, according to the same article, there are still Paternosters in operation in Britain at the University of Sheffield's Arts Tower and at University of Essex's Albert Sloman Library.
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i think so, yeah.

they're also all over germany and the czech republic, still!
(i really want to visit prague one day for mostly unrelated reasons, but i'd totally be geeking out over a paternoster or two. i feel no shame in this - paternosters are rad as hell.
 
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Hiace_Erotica.lit said:
OH, GOD, memories..
being old as fuck and in that area, i've been in those stores more than a couple times. i think it was the simpsons store with the big janky elevator and it was at least five or six floors?

the electronics and toys section were a god damned wonderland. but the building itself was all sorts of cool. i seem to recall pneumatic tube capsule things all over the place, as well.
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I'm sure those pneumatic tubes came in handy for decades when they had to send a message around. Sadly my city lost its downtown "flagship" stores by the 1980's so I never had that experience.

they're also all over germany and the czech republic, still!
(i really want to visit prague one day for mostly unrelated reasons, but i'd totally be geeking out over a paternoster or two. i feel no shame in this - paternosters are rad as hell.
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I think so too, I wish I could ride one.
 
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