"List of elevators that have not been filmed..."
March 1, 2018 10:29 AM Subscribe
Needs to be divided into intuitionists and empiricists!!
posted by chavenet at 11:30 AM on March 1, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by chavenet at 11:30 AM on March 1, 2018 [6 favorites]
Inspired by Learned League y/n?
posted by clavicle at 11:36 AM on March 1, 2018 [2 favorites]
posted by clavicle at 11:36 AM on March 1, 2018 [2 favorites]
Glad this opens with a Stockholm hotel; it was in the elevator of another one in the same city that I saw my all-time favorite sign.
posted by Wordshore at 11:51 AM on March 1, 2018 [14 favorites]
posted by Wordshore at 11:51 AM on March 1, 2018 [14 favorites]
Inspired by Learned League y/n?
I wonder how much hate mail Thorsten got explaining that it's either ThyssenKrupp or thyssenkrupp, but never Thyssenkrupp.
posted by Copronymus at 12:10 PM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
I wonder how much hate mail Thorsten got explaining that it's either ThyssenKrupp or thyssenkrupp, but never Thyssenkrupp.
posted by Copronymus at 12:10 PM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
"Loving an elevator" is a delightful slug.
"Hello, Mr. Tyler, going down? And then up? And then down again? And then up again?"
posted by Strange Interlude at 12:56 PM on March 1, 2018
"Hello, Mr. Tyler, going down? And then up? And then down again? And then up again?"
posted by Strange Interlude at 12:56 PM on March 1, 2018
> Wordshore:
"Glad this opens with a Stockholm hotel; it was in the elevator of another one in the same city that I saw my all-time favorite sign."
Hey! We have that here in Portugal too. Elevators without internal doors = danger!
posted by chavenet at 1:49 PM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
"Glad this opens with a Stockholm hotel; it was in the elevator of another one in the same city that I saw my all-time favorite sign."
Hey! We have that here in Portugal too. Elevators without internal doors = danger!
posted by chavenet at 1:49 PM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
Wordshore: I saw the same, fantastic, and all-time favorite similar sticker in Gothenburg. Did you buy a Volvo there, too?
posted by Snowishberlin at 1:56 PM on March 1, 2018
posted by Snowishberlin at 1:56 PM on March 1, 2018
Ooh, ooh, an opportunity to pull out my favourite elevator anecdote:
At Aarhus University, they had old elevators with old-school signage incorporating a light indicating when the elevator was in motion. This light was labelled as such, but in Danish. Needless to say, they had to have someone go round and tape over all of them when there was a royal visit from QE2 of Britain: couldn't possibly have a British monarch accosted with elevators politely lighting up with "I fart".
posted by Dysk at 2:05 PM on March 1, 2018 [9 favorites]
At Aarhus University, they had old elevators with old-school signage incorporating a light indicating when the elevator was in motion. This light was labelled as such, but in Danish. Needless to say, they had to have someone go round and tape over all of them when there was a royal visit from QE2 of Britain: couldn't possibly have a British monarch accosted with elevators politely lighting up with "I fart".
posted by Dysk at 2:05 PM on March 1, 2018 [9 favorites]
For those who thrill to the danger of the Paternoster Lift, nothing else will do.
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 4:19 PM on March 1, 2018 [6 favorites]
posted by The Pluto Gangsta at 4:19 PM on March 1, 2018 [6 favorites]
The Pluto Gangsta: thanks for that link! I had never heard of a paternoster lift. That was fascinating.
posted by 4ster at 7:43 PM on March 1, 2018
posted by 4ster at 7:43 PM on March 1, 2018
Inspired by Learned League y/n?
Y! I even posted in their forum first and that was where I found the link to the main article I used in this post.
posted by jessamyn at 8:36 PM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
Y! I even posted in their forum first and that was where I found the link to the main article I used in this post.
posted by jessamyn at 8:36 PM on March 1, 2018 [1 favorite]
The best part of paternoster lifts was going over the top and around the bottom to make a complete loop. They were designed to be surprisingly safe to use if you were an able bodied adult. I wouldn’t want to try one in a wheelchair, though.
posted by monotreme at 11:25 PM on March 1, 2018
posted by monotreme at 11:25 PM on March 1, 2018
For those who thrill to the danger of the Paternoster Lift, nothing else will do.
Those people don't even seem like they are enjoying that! Now that I know this is a thing you cn find, I went looking for the St Louis Arch elevator (or is it a tram) and the inclinators" at the Luxor hotel
posted by jessamyn at 9:33 AM on March 2, 2018
Those people don't even seem like they are enjoying that! Now that I know this is a thing you cn find, I went looking for the St Louis Arch elevator (or is it a tram) and the inclinators" at the Luxor hotel
posted by jessamyn at 9:33 AM on March 2, 2018
the inclinators" at the Luxor hotel
I rolled my ankle my first ride in Luxor's Willie Wonka elevator and spent the rest of the week hobbling around the Strip. One knows it's not going to be a normal ride but it's a normal elevator car inside with no indications of which way it's going to send you lurching.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 7:40 PM on March 3, 2018
I rolled my ankle my first ride in Luxor's Willie Wonka elevator and spent the rest of the week hobbling around the Strip. One knows it's not going to be a normal ride but it's a normal elevator car inside with no indications of which way it's going to send you lurching.
posted by Ogre Lawless at 7:40 PM on March 3, 2018
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