eleva TOUR: Cornell Hotel De France San Francisco w/ 1910 gated OTIS elevator and Machine room

[@alpaljl]

I stayed here last summer. Great place! Managed to fit my bike in that elevator a lot!

[@frankiel.6774]

8:00 I love that winding drum traction motor!

[@DieselDucy]

+Frankie Leone it was epic :₩

[@PL1Lifts]

Dante Trainmaster Can you STOP?We get it,you want old elevators to get ruined.Now shut up.

[@thewildeeper]

Bye Yall! Truly a beautiful hotel, with a beautiful elevator to match!

[@SirensAndElevators]

I love how you edit these videos now.

[@DieselDucy]

Glad you enjoy :) Hope you will keep watching :)

[@22408aaron]

Such a wonderful and hospitable manager. This is what the lodging industry is all about.

[@passacaglia28]

What an impressive hotel! I love the elevator car!

[@jacksonslaterelevatorraila6444]

5:00 Oreck Vaccuum lol

[@blueauraretriever]

VERY nice and detailed video DieselDucy! I loved it! Every single bit of it! You truly are the king of the International Elevator Filming Community bro. This video touched my heart.

[@DieselDucy]

Thanks SO much for the feedback!

[@blueauraretriever]

***** no problem... I looooooooooove watching your elevator videos. They are what made me wanna begin filming elevators... your such an inspiration to the entire elevator community... Keep up the great work, and happy thanksgiving to you.

[@schindlermontgomery7509]

I Love The Motor Sounds

[@elevatingamerica2482]

Very well put together andrew. hopefully other companies will keep giving you opportutity to do this!

[@awesomestuff26]

Very amazing video! Great commentary, tour of the hotel, and of course the elevator :) I really like this new style of video. Loved the machine room as well.

[@DieselDucy]

awesomestuff26 thanks Jason :)

[@Ih8kone]

@@DieselDucy You forgot to mention it's a birdcage Elevator.

[@siauboonkong8441]

I LIKE YOUR VIDEO DUCY

[@harv3938]

I was born in sf and will never leave it it to great here

[@sgbuses]

Now *that's* what I call a grand elevator.

[@SamSitar]

during my Sydney Holiday i will have many videos.

[@MyDiesel101]

Beautiful!

[@MeaghanEdwards]

I'll bet the rooms are nice!

[@nickalbanese543]

B lights up, but it doesn't stay fully lit. Makes you think it's locked

[@Ih8kone]

Even though it's not locked.

[@Dog.soldier1950]

FYI. Rack rate. $221 a night. 2-3 blocks from union square

[@spccanadanovascotiahalifax93]

Nice and fast

[@Ih8kone]

Cornell Hotel de France closed the restaurant in 2020 :(

[@Ih8kone]

I got in touch with the owner and he said that the elevator is still original.

[@427zoh6]

That machine is known as a "Basement Drum" elevator....state of California wants all those gone. The motor is a "Flat Top" motor used before WWII....some basement drums were pretty high speed....but there are several old techs missing fingers due to their design. The controller looks to be a Star Delta control....uses PLC's for control functions...the guy who ran Star Delta stopped doing elevators and many of his controllers have no back up on PLC programming...works great until it dies one day. Unless your a licensed Elevator Inspector/Mechanic the owner violated Tate codes letting you in that equipment room. Looks like you were in the Tenderlion district.....many buildings with old equipment around those parts.

[@DieselDucy]

+427zoh6 yes I was. Lots of historic elevators there.

[@upanddownadventures]

+427zoh6 What old elevators do you know of in particular in San Francisco, and northern California in general? Do you know of any manually controlled elevators, any signal operation elevators (such as Otis Signal Control), any steam powered, or water hydraulic (running off of city water pressure and not a pump in the machine room like a modern hydraulic elevator), or hand powered, or pull rope operated elevators? San Francisco does have a lot of old elevators. Do you know of any original elevators that predate the 1906 earthquake & fire? Is California currently doing anything actively to encourage replacement of winding drum elevators? I know in the past they did not allow them to be modernized (to encourage them to be replaced instead of modernized), but they can now be modernized as far as I know. I know they also have tried before to pass laws that would require most of them to be removed. I love historic elevators, and I hope they don't require winding drum elevators to be removed as then the state's oldest elevators would no longer exist.

[@stevieb8865]

Nice video!

[@mael2805]

It must be said "bon appéti" and no "bon apétite"

[@ShaferProductions]

dude today that i comment a alert page open and the voice of it must be youtuber pink sheep! he opened it like a pranksteganster

[@huwclements3862]

How about meeting JimLiElevators again

[@watchmakerful]

Is it three-speed???

[@DieselDucy]

I believe so.

[@georgef551]

I've been on some more moderns stuff with 3-speed leveling, especially an old Payne at U-Mass Lowell. You could see it through the door, and was captured on-camera.

[@SamSitar]

that gated elevator levels very smoothly.

[@campermike8879]

Nice video. Old stuff was built to last. No China made parts

[@bsvenadam]

This elevator is since been replaced

[@DieselDucy]

Shame

[@Aufzug25]

It Smells like Elevator too Right? I like it to smell it

[@DieselDucy]

it does.

[@jonathancreveling8699]

Sad the buttons have been upgraded on this elevator

[@JordanLoweElevaToursCanada]

This has to be the oldest elevator I've ever seen on your channel

[@Gosh_Josh]

0:13. ATI siren

[@lol-to4me]

Dang it's 112 by now

[@DieselDucy]

yep :) getting modded soon though :(

[@ellisgeorgewilliams7001]

Well I think Ellis williams

[@seanjuth]

0:12 crap siren