Comments on: The Quick 10: 10 Notable Elevators

By: Amber

Amber — Wed, 25 Mar 2009 04:37:00 +0000

Oh, the St Louis arch elevators. We’ve had some wonderful times.
The ride up is terrifying, you’re in these tiny pods and you can feel them rotating…and when I was there they broke down. Luckily not when I was on them, but I was stuck at the top of the arch (which is basically a hallway with windows) for an hour waiting for them to be fixed.
You get tired of the view after an hour of feeling the arch sway in the breeze.

By: D Hue

D Hue — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 20:55:00 +0000

I agree, the CN Tower elevator is crazy fast and glass. Very cool. Not so cool are the rear elevators in the Grain Exchange Building in Winnipeg. If your on the top floor, you hit the button, wait for over five minutes(which is long for a ten story building) and then have all four elevators come to the top at the same time. What, you say I’m lazy? Big woop, wanna fight about it?

By: anaximander

anaximander — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:33:00 +0000

What about the CN Tower’s glass elevators?

By: Michelle

Michelle — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 19:32:00 +0000

When I was 12, my family moved to Frankfurt, Germany. My father worked in what we called the Abrams Building, but was better known as the I.G. Farben Building, taken over by the American’s in WWII and used for multiple purposes. At the time we lived there, it was an office building for many military units. The building was one of the few that still had (still has) working paternosters. They were pretty cool, like farris wheels (continuously moving, and you could stay on as it circled over the top – looking into the attic – or down into the basement). I believe there were 5 or 6 (maybe more) in the building, but only a few of them worked at a time.

The sad thing was, a woman that my father knew stepped onto one and the floor gave way, killing her as she was stuck and it was continuously moving. After that, the paternosters were off limits and you had to take the stairs or wait for one of the elevators.

After the military bases in Frankfurt were returned to the German government in 1996, the I.G. Farben building became part of the University of Frankfurt. The paternosters were completely overhauled and every one in the building is now running.

I last visited the building in 2004. It was cool to ride them again.

By: Dan Hall

Dan Hall — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 18:16:00 +0000

If you’re going to count the one in Iowa, what about the two inclines in Pittsburgh? They are some of the oldest in the US and they are still in operation.

By: elvoid

elvoid — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 17:01:00 +0000

Otis Elevator Co has a test sight in Bristol, Connecticut, near Lake Compounce amusement park and ESPN national HQ.

It’s a big open tower…very odd looking…may merit further investigation!

By: C

Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:23:00 +0000

I am pretty sure that the George Washington Masonic Memorial in Alexandria, VA has “inclinators” as well. But the angle is only like 7.5 degrees or something small like that. My details on this matter are obviously a little fuzzy…

By: mamamo

mamamo — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 16:00:00 +0000

If you aren’t going to go on Tower of Terror at least make it over to Disney Quest for their elevators. Genie is your host, what more can I say?

By: adrienne

adrienne — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:59:00 +0000

That Gateway Arch ride is a real nail-biter. I wasn’t a huge fan, but I had fun for the rest of my stay there. You know, once I stopped crying.

rC: Walking 1.0

By: jackie

jackie — Tue, 24 Mar 2009 15:18:00 +0000

The most amazing elevator I have ever seen was at the Sanderson Hotel in London. It’s a back-lit hologram galaxy…