Awesome Historic Elevators at The Muehlebach Hotel, Kansas City, MO

These elevators were modernized, but you can still really feel the history. They are located in the old Muehlebach Hotel, which is now attached to the Downtown Marriott. For some reason, all of the rooms on the upper floors are unused. It seems that they only use the space on the lower floors for meeting rooms. Follow me on:
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[@starmaster191]

I went inside this muehlbach hotel Kansas city in June 2017, i could feel the history inside that building. thanks for showing the elevators.

[@handdryersrule]

I wish these elevators could be put back into service, they're quite some gems

[@carselevators930]

They should’ve kept these running because I would love to film these

[@ElevatingBoston]

I missed this video when you originally posted it. What a stunning building. Hotels of the past didn't have that corporate sterility that almost all of the hotels have today. The guest rooms are likely vacant because they don't meet the current standards for a hotel room in 2012. Hotel rooms of the past were very tiny and it would sadly be hard to find enough people that are willing to stay in such vintage accommodations. Marriott likely undertook a cost analysis on renovation vs. building new.

[@johnblansit5457]

The Beatles on their September 17th tour 1964 stayed here. The bedsheets were cut up into 1inch squares and sold to the general public

[@FranceHopper]

Absolutely beautiful. Rather surprising that the upper levels are unused. I would think it would be cheaper to actually use them, not have them sit idle.

[@georgef551]

@TheElevatorChannel From the looks of some descriptions, these appeared to have been more recent. Guess not. I guess these did get pushed way back. (Then again, the current new videos of Saint Joseph are 13 months old.)

[@22408aaron]

Is there any possible way on getting to those restricted floors and if there is, how?

[@georgef551]

@TheElevatorChannel Took awhile, huh? :) I remember you mentioning this a long time ago.

[@georgef551]

Nothing says "Tasteful Mod" of a classic elevator, like EPCO uttons, and a green "ACME" Dot-Matrix floor counter.

[@missourielevators9252]

I tried riding these today. But they've been out of service for years.

[@Ih8kone]

When will they be back in service?

[@user-ll1lz1bu5b]

Епграт. П

[@user-ll1lz1bu5b]

Прпц0к

[@Ih8kone]

@@user-ll1lz1bu5b You comment makes no sense.

[@carselevators930]

I don’t speak that language either but I’ll take that as a maybe

[@airtranlover]

Do these lifts have an independent service keyswitch?

[@Ih8kone]

Obviously.

[@OPG2711]

These were installed or modernized once by Montgomery.

[@plushbatfan]

For 10+ floors, do those vintage elevators travel 350 FPM? Geared traction perhaps?

[@rockymatthias3593]

I guess Im kind of off topic but do anybody know of a good website to watch new movies online ?

[@piercelennox2045]

@Rocky Matthias I watch on Flixzone. Just search on google for it :)

[@OctoSwift]

Beautifull, a lot better than the Gen 2 and Eco crap.

[@georgef551]

Got a lot of old backlogged stuff, huh? Either that, or your buddy didn't get into the Army.

[@Gosh_Josh]

we're these manually controlled

[@robfassi3297]

yes

[@Gosh_Josh]

+Rob Fassi what were these originally

[@robfassi3297]

+josh gardner I have no idea

[@williamscoufaras7045]

I’m willing to bet they were

[@TheHighRiseElevatorLover]

Shamed they locked the upper florrs.

[@georgef551]

@TheElevatorChannel I take it Alex didn't go through with the Army thing. They won't allow hair like that. :)

[@airtranlover]

What Fixtures are those?

[@TheElevatorChannel]

Outside- Your guess is as good as mine. No one seems to know. Inside- Just some generic Adams panel that was likely installed in the 90's.

[@shmulstvgone3169]

They appear to be EPCO/ADAMS. I have seen COPs similar to those on some Dovers.

[@OPG2711]

Innovation Premier car operating panels.

[@EWPA14]

OPM1961 They can’t be Premier, as they’re from the 80s-90s.

[@OPG2711]

I’m not sure, but I think these were early Premier, from the mid-late-1990s.

[@feppelevator]

EPIC call button, but in the inside, not so epic.

[@kmchlstoney1960]

They said the guestrooms in the Muehlebach are out of use which is not true. They should ask for someone professionally works in the Marriott Downtown to give them the proper tour instead of them running around and making arbitrary erroneous remarks on video about the hotel.