Last Glance
Reaching Chimney Rock
For more than 70 years, an Otis elevator has transported guests to Chimney Rock, a 315-ft granite monolith that’s the distinguishing feature and namesake of Chimney Rock State Park in...
Ice Cream and a Victorian-Era Elevator Car
Longtime ELEVATOR WORLD correspondent and industry legend George Gibson, aka “King George,” recently shared a few of the more than 30,000 elevator-centric photographs he has taken throughout his more than...
Splendors of Magna Graecia
New lift connects oldest basilica in Naples to wonders of ancient Rome. Magna Graecia, or in Ancient Greek, Μεγάλη Ἑλλάς, Megálē Hellás, was the name given by ancient Romans to...
Art, Accessibility and Heavy Lifting in Bristol, England
photo courtesy of DeSem Lifts RWA, the Royal West of England Academy art gallery and school in Bristol, is unique. A spectacular Grade II* listed historic building (one of particular...
TikTok: Reaching the Next Generation
The struggle to recruit new employees always requires new ideas, observes Rainer Grill, head of public relations at Ziehl-Abegg, the Künzelsau, Germany-based motor and fan manufacturer. That’s why, two years...
The Picture Behind the Picture
ELEVATOR WORLD is probably not alone in having the “Lunchtime Atop a Skyscraper” photograph, taken in 1932 by Charles C. Ebbets during construction of Rockefeller Center in NYC, displayed prominently...
Sparks and Achievements
TK Elevator (TKE) photographer Ron Acord has a knack for capturing moments, including this one showing a welder refining pieces of steel for elevator parts at TKE’s North America manufacturing...
LEGO: TK Elevator One-of-a-Kind Keepsake
As festivities to welcome TK Elevator’s (TKE) North American headquarters (HQ), which includes a 420-ft-tall test tower, wound down on February 9 at The Battery Atlanta, TKE team members stood...
Reexamining “Winds of Change”
Conflict in Ukraine casts domestic VT market in very different light. In early December 2021, a Russian writer submitted an article to ELEVATOR WORLD about the Ukraine vertical-transportation (VT) market...
“Jewel” of The Broad
Rick Mitchell, director of facilities at contemporary art museum The Broad in downtown Los Angeles, considers the custom Mitsubishi Electric cylindrical glass elevator “one of the many jewels of the...
