Last Glance
A Final Special Application
What better way to end ELEVATOR WORLD’s Focus on Special Application Lifts than with a retired freight elevator that doubles as art and a glass-topped dining surface? EW Associate Editor...
Unauthorized Access
Riding a train without buying a ticket is never a good idea, and breaking into the tunnel with a large auger is several steps beyond. David Cooper, managing director of...
66 West 38th Street
United Elevator Cabs, Inc. of Jamaica, New York, recently modernized the cabin of an elevator at 66 West 38th Street, also called “Atlas New York,” in New York City’s Garment...
What It All Means
Mark Fulker of Halma PR Services described what (l-r) Avire Managing Director Paul Simmons and Chairman Nigel Trodd are doing in this photo, taken during the opening celebration of the...
Smith-Hill Elevator
Photos of this hand-operated Smith-Hill elevator were sent to us by ELEVATOR WORLD reader Pamela Chaney. Located in an old hardware store in Montpelier, Indiana, the ele-vator has been dated...
Well, This Is Awkward. . .
Not even the CECA Convention in Niagara Falls, Canada (p. 104), was spared the hampering of vertical transporta-tion due to a labor strike during the event. While this escalator was...
Would You Do This?
Dubbed “the world’s first lickable lift” and installed in an office building in Great Portland Street, London, this elevator car has 1,325 Jaffa Cakes cookies stuck on its walls for...
Hidden Relic Found in Building
The owner of a central Syracuse, New York, building found this old Houser water-hydraulic elevator engine behind a wall that was close to collapsing. The 25-ft.-long system dates to 1883...
Elevator Men
This photo was snapped at the historic Tennessee Theatre in Knoxville. According to the photographer, the theater has signage for a men’s room, a ladies room and an elevator men’s...
Warped Elevator
This unusual elevator was uncovered in Queens by Scouting New York while searching for office space. Who knew such an unusual installation could lurk behind those unassuming doors? Resembling something...
