In Soviet Russia elevator stays still, building moves up and down.
@dakotashowalter59495 жыл бұрын
Mkscorpion79 can you make a video of it
@Volga24025 жыл бұрын
In Soviet Russia capitalists lies in their graves
@SergeyFallout5 жыл бұрын
No, in Soviet Russia you moves the elevator yourself. But Russia is not Soviet anymore.
@user-se8nh3yu1e4 жыл бұрын
SergeyFallout it’s a joke.
@simmerthesauce92284 жыл бұрын
@@SergeyFallout r/wooosh
@grahamallen42496 жыл бұрын
I suppose been a elevator enthusiast has its ups and downs...
@keenanjohnson56783 жыл бұрын
+Comedy 100
@user-wr1gh8fv6p3 жыл бұрын
Lifts my spirits
@la-ia14047 жыл бұрын
1926 followed by "You Got Mail!".
@dayofthedaleks15246 жыл бұрын
Tina and Einstein who still uses AOL
@ElementofKindness6 жыл бұрын
Dayofthedaleks152 Ha! That was my instantaneous thought as well!
@DrFruikenstein6 жыл бұрын
Yep... 1926 followed by 1996.
@Galidorquest6 жыл бұрын
Dayofthedaleks152 My Dad does.
@christophermorreall34546 жыл бұрын
I still use aol
@realvanman7 жыл бұрын
That guy was *really* cool for giving you guys such an up close and hands on tour! Thanks for sharing!!
@minecraftelevatorsltd45527 жыл бұрын
realvanman Its Disel ducy
@5bananas16 жыл бұрын
You are now entering "the twilight zone".
@nicolea28392 жыл бұрын
Tower of Terror
@richardzink60263 жыл бұрын
I'm a elevator technician for 40 yrs I have seen these run at over 500ft per minute in NY
@donkmeister6 жыл бұрын
Back from the days when there genuinely were "elevator drivers" driving these for a living. The guy showing them is obviously very much aware of the potential dangers of this badboy with the "all clear" and "stand back"!!!! Nearest I've seen to this lift are the more recent three-sided lifts that you still see in Italy, but those are automated(ish).
@nephetula6 жыл бұрын
Most all passenger elevators had inner doors, so they weren't as hazardous as the one shown. Every big department store and office building had 2 or more elevators, but from what I remember back in the '50s, they were referred to as "elevator operators", not "elevator drivers". That's also back when truck drivers were usually referred to as "chauffeurs", and a driving license for big rigs was called a "chauffeur's license".
@netking666 жыл бұрын
I have not seen any three sided ones, but some older ones have a hand operated scissors gate instead of an 'inside' door which the attendant or passenger had to work. The elevator would not move until the gate was properly shut and in some cases the gate could be opened while the elevator was moving resulting in it stopping. The control logic was primitive - if you pressed the floor call button (there was only one) the elevator would come to that floor only if free. Similarly there was no logic with the buttons in the car - if you press say level 6 the elevator went there and that was that. You could do an 'unscheduled' stop by pulling the scissors gate open at the appropriate floor and hope there was not too much of a 'step'. So probably a 'driver' was used at busy times especially in a retail setting with ithe elevator being self operated 'after hours' when usage was light.
@weekendrailroader6 жыл бұрын
Agreed. It's good to see a competent operator with safety on the brain when working with old equipment and technology.
@crapcopter6 жыл бұрын
the guy driving was dieselducy, another elevator filmer, you can hear his voice
@webleeoz Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure the guy driving is modernizing the lift car, you see the car doors in the basement at the start. (the brass coloured ones the camera man knocks with his knuckle) He will have the car door closed switch bridged to make the lift think the car doors are closed. Once he has installed the new car door operator, the car door panels will be installed and it will look like a normal lift again.
@iorfidaskye6 жыл бұрын
We have a smaller Otis just like this in a apartment building we maintain, it's got normal push buttons to pick floor and it's got the same exact design around the top of the car. The building was built in the 1920s and the elevator is original. Still has the original inner brass gate that you have to slide over to enter
@johnnz43756 жыл бұрын
Most things only become dangerous when handled by stupid people.
@Mike1614b6 жыл бұрын
yes, but there are lots of stupid people. lots
@adrianh45815 жыл бұрын
If you were to experience to be on that elevator in that same year it was built you would obviously be used to that being on those kind of elevators, and people back then were really not sensitive and really were more responsible because they really weren't distracted with phones and such things like that, and they treat things from the pass like they are dangerous because of how old and those things are, today people would exaggerate and make safety procedures and such things like that because bad things would happen, everyone was really used to doing things themselves more, people are not stupid, people are allowing to be spoiled by the government, putting them to sleep overtime as it passes by. We have touchscreen smart phones and everything just with that we have learn to trust the government, so do not blame them for their stupidity, that's because the world is improving as you can see, when you look around when you are outside.
@user-se8nh3yu1e4 жыл бұрын
Adrian H thanks for the paragraph I’m not reading.
@mauer5943 жыл бұрын
An old elevator like this is probably gonna be dangerous regardless
@andreaeverywhere76933 жыл бұрын
like you hahaha...
@asleep-cult68776 жыл бұрын
who else heard the aol you've got mail
@lancecombes6 жыл бұрын
Zavier The Great me lol
@nelolson79976 жыл бұрын
1926 more like 1996
@StrawTech86 жыл бұрын
me
@crapcopter6 жыл бұрын
Me
@fedders46 жыл бұрын
I did!
@cadenschmidt27526 жыл бұрын
im here at 11;30 at night watching a video about a weird ass elevator... oh well, i find these weirdly entertaining
@RandomRandomnessKCMO6 жыл бұрын
It's 1 am and I'm doing the same .... Apparently I have no life
@cpufreak1016 жыл бұрын
It's only 4:40 PM for me
@V2K.046 жыл бұрын
Sameeee except its 3:19 AM
@johnys24176 жыл бұрын
Aesthetic 00:43 for me
@chado30006 жыл бұрын
It had its ups and downs.
@chado30006 жыл бұрын
So back in the day you would ask the elevator operator how he liked his job. He would say, "It has it's ups and downs."
@charlieluna72376 жыл бұрын
It may be old but I bet it's incredibly well built
@HappyQuailsLC6 жыл бұрын
Its just like a freight elevator! Except for that controller arm....
@carolhutchinson77636 жыл бұрын
HappyQuails: That was no freight elevator originally; look at the ornate interior and chandelier light. And it opens in the lobby. I wonder if it's still in operation using an elevator operator and these guys are repairing it. Or maybe changing it to automatic.
@kentworch Жыл бұрын
That's was awesome. You don't see an old lift like that very often anymore. Only thing cooler than that would be the engine room. Awesome video of a beautiful antique lift.❤
@misterwhipple28703 күн бұрын
This is so old you have to gauge where to stop manually, and man, that IS dangerous! (Not to mention there is no interior gate, which I am sure this originally had!) I used to operate one of these in a really old hotel (under VERY close supervision) in Sarasota, Florida in the 1960s. It takes experience to operate one of these without hurting somebody! In the 1930s, they invented Micronizers, which helped you land exactly at the right spot for each floor. In the 1950s, they went automatic, which put elevator operators (remember them?) out of work. Old and beautiful, but scary!
@chado30006 жыл бұрын
I grew up riding an Otis just like this one, except it had a collapsible screen that kept you away from the wall as you went up or down. The fun part was they always had an operator to chauffeur you to your floor.
@Galidorquest6 жыл бұрын
I vaguely remember taking an elevator like this in 2006, except it had rusty gates and green padded walls... Creepy as hell.
@danielgoetz78215 жыл бұрын
Now that's what I think of when I hear elevator. You had a lift operator , everything was gorgeous. I was born in the wrong era
@DrMemory6677 жыл бұрын
Such a beautiful elevator in such an ugly shaft!
@isweariwillmurderevilowlso89855 жыл бұрын
Apart from glass lift shafts
@HappyQuailsLC6 жыл бұрын
Would you show us wooden escalators someday?
@larryshaver35686 жыл бұрын
Amazing invention for even that late. The first came out around 1899
@willharris44296 жыл бұрын
There are two of these at the fox theater in Atlanta both in great condition I loved operating them. They can be a bit moody but it comes with age lol
@johngriff9146 жыл бұрын
As an elevator Mechanic I can tell you there’s nothing dangerous about this elevator and they are more common than people think. They are extremely common in many multi device residential buildings in Manhattan. Mostly used as service cars for contractors and building staff. The fact that there is no gate and no interlocks leads me to suspect that they are in the middle of modernizing this elevator and replacing the hall doors. The door fixtures are all new and not consistent with Otis products.
@brianrandall66155 жыл бұрын
Gal hoistway door equipment
@ep616115 жыл бұрын
I concur. The stuff in the basement indicates that there is construction going on somewhere, and this elevator is the likely target. These guys probably removed all kinds of warning signs just to get their 9:36 of KZbin fame. Their attempt at hiding the location was absurd - at the end of the video, they told where it was: the Robert E Lee Hotel and a quick Google search gave its location as Lexington, Virginia. We're dealing with a couple of morons here...
@ep616114 жыл бұрын
@@Liftsaviation - Gee...if I valued your opinion of me, your comment might mean something.
@coondogtheman8 жыл бұрын
I'd like to see the motor room of this elevator.
@TheTheo588 жыл бұрын
I would too to check the condition of the traction machine and the controller
@WaterBottle14017 жыл бұрын
TheTheo58 ow
@InflatablePlane6 жыл бұрын
Sweet baby Jesus that motor controller is beautiful. I’d love to see the motor room for this beast.
@piratecandy63106 жыл бұрын
I rode a manual elevator like this one recently with my dad at a construction worksite but i think was older than this. It had the gate you had to pull and you saw the walls outside the gate when you move the machine. And when you come out of the elevator you saw the levels and the pointer that looked like a clock's hand pointing to each level the elevator was on at that moment and I fell in love with it. The lady who operated the elevator was so nice. I asked my dad if they are going to get rid of such a beautiful antique elevator and he said yes and I was upset about it. I would pay to ride that elevator again.
@shelbythibodeau55064 жыл бұрын
Oh, it must've been fun to be an elevator operator back in the day!
@obesefeline7 жыл бұрын
That music on the first floor echoing up the elevator shaft reminds me of the movie "the Shining", creepy....
@mottbone6 жыл бұрын
I thought it was the opening of the Beatles 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.'
@nomebear5 жыл бұрын
The elevator in my office is powered by water and gravity flow. Its quiet old, was made by the Portland, Oregon, and is smooth operating.
@JTRedstone8 жыл бұрын
wow...no inner doors
@ElevatingEurope8 жыл бұрын
There used to be a gate in place and I guess it got ripped out.
@chado30006 жыл бұрын
Elevating Europe exactly
@fieldaj20116 жыл бұрын
First scene....i was waiting for a river of blood to get off that elevator. The Overlook!
@Debbiebabe696 жыл бұрын
Nothing dangerous about this elevator, apart from the missing car door and interlock which is the fault of whoever took them out, not the elevator. And for those who say 'modernise the elevators', its not that simple. For example, even though the standard preferred way to deliver electricity has been AC since the late 1800's, New York provided mains DC right up until 2007 - because some older buildings still had DC powered elevators.
@johngriff9146 жыл бұрын
They do not have DC mainline power. AC is delivered to the building and converted by either a generator or a rectifier to DC power to operate the motor. The reason for DC motor is that prior to the late 1980’s AC motors only had two speeds, on and off. DC allowed taller buildings to elevator motors whose speed could be changed by altering the voltage to the motor via acceleration relays and resistors. This changed with the perfection of VVVF controllers using AC frequency drives
@brianrandall66155 жыл бұрын
Or a Drive
@cindytepper88785 жыл бұрын
City Hall in Philly still had really old DC elevator machinery the last time I looked at it in 2005ish. The control panels were in scary bad shape, I was afraid to breath too hard near them. There were a couple relays not even mounted and hanging by seriously old wires judging from the cloth insulation. The rest of the equipment didn't look much better. The emergency generator transfer switch for the South East corner elevator had problems too I don't even want to go into the problems with water/algae in the fuel in the generator day tanks that they did nothing about for years
@stormeagle287 жыл бұрын
Not dangerous. It's from a forgotten era where mankind was smart enough to handle such machinery. Today we're all way too dumb and might get killed instantly when trying to operator a lift manually. We can't even change a lightbulb anymore without being electrocuted. That's why we need computers which make the thinking for us and let us get stuck in an elevator when they fail.
@EWPA147 жыл бұрын
It would be much more safe if it had an inner gate like it used to. I get the outer door replacement to blend w/ the other elevator, but I don’t get @ all why they got rid of the inner gate, & the basement door.
@tiascorner85257 жыл бұрын
*area
@atomstarfireproductions86956 жыл бұрын
Elevating Western PA Productions and removed the interlocks. They made it more unsafe.
@BrapBrapDorito6 жыл бұрын
Jeez
@tannawannavannabittannawan71386 жыл бұрын
Amen to that!!!
@ct924046 жыл бұрын
That's pretty cool. The operator is almost like a motorman on a trolley car.
@TheFlyingBusman5 жыл бұрын
I’ve come across train anoraks, bus anoraks, Classic Car anoraks, plane anoraks. I never imagined the day I would experience elavator anoraks!
@pietersleght82355 жыл бұрын
i rode these when i was young .. also the cage elevators were the scariest.
@williamevans79326 жыл бұрын
Riding on top of the car all the way to the top of the shaft is fun too.
@HobbyOrganist6 жыл бұрын
Oh shit, did that as a kid on the 2 passenger elevators in our 22 story apartment building, and those elevators were pretty fast and I used to go from one top to the other or to an I beam between them on an upper floor. I found I could reset the floor selector by tripping the contact on the shaft doors, one poor sap wanted to get to the 21st floor and as the car started to level I tripped the contact and it would send the car all the way back to the lobby again, he tried 3 times before giving up and walking, LOL But it was scary when someone went to the top floor and you see that grating coming fast at you and it's like you are going to hit it but then the car slows and stops. I don't remember exactly how long it took to travel the 22 floors, it was probably about 30-35 seconds, a little slower than a floor per second
@colinantink90946 жыл бұрын
That sounds awsome. Howd you get in the shaft?
@ForceDoG2 жыл бұрын
"Find Otis Right!" :)
@konvitalik Жыл бұрын
You got Mail! thats what i heard when they were down in the basement
@michelemedori7836 жыл бұрын
I hate to say it, but these needed it.
@bingola456 жыл бұрын
Automatic operation was NOT introduced for safety reasons. It was devised so that you could put the Operator out of a job, and keep his pay for yourself!
@lotsofstuff47922 жыл бұрын
I like how at 1:51 it says the old you got mail sound
@747sooner2 ай бұрын
1:51 “You got mail!”
@Lewis.Channel Жыл бұрын
1:51 You got mail 😂
@fakebruisesandcutetutorial78796 жыл бұрын
Looks like a modern basement.
@747sooner5 ай бұрын
This is the Robert E Lee hotel in Lexington, VA.
@MMBaus6 жыл бұрын
This is epic! Love that control wheel
@catsbyondrepair5 жыл бұрын
Otis is the only elevator company in the world for good reason.
@SteveCarras6 жыл бұрын
And sometime in the 1890s of older someone designing drawbridges was influenced by these and invented the vertical-lift bridge! 😎
@Africanfrogs6 жыл бұрын
That's pretty cool that guy let you guys do all that
@dykodesigns8 жыл бұрын
They must have compromised the safety systems, it should normally not beeing able to move with the shaft doors open.
@IDontKnow-pf6en6 жыл бұрын
dykodesigns2yt too old for that
@gtb81.5 жыл бұрын
I believe they were working on it at the time
@brianrandall66155 жыл бұрын
That car was being modded
@jnichols36 жыл бұрын
OK, I was going to post a clip of Cheryl Tunt saying, "Who do I look like Elisha Otis", but could not find one.
@spn3925 Жыл бұрын
Factory I worked at here in town had 4 of these older than this, I think they had 3 digit serial numbers. Still running them as far as I know.
@Astinsan6 жыл бұрын
There is a really old elevator (traction) in Douglas Arizona. The Gadsden Hotel. There isn’t a door on it. Just a gate.
@DOLRED3 жыл бұрын
Nice younger guys. They reach the private residence floor and whisper!
@coinmandanm93806 жыл бұрын
I remember when the department stores and hotels used to have them. My mom ran one in a hotel in the 1940s and 50s.
@MegaGeorge19485 жыл бұрын
This elevator reminds me of the same elevator that I had to ride in at the hotel that I was staying at in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1974. The elevator operator worked off of tips operating the elevator.
@mspenrice6 жыл бұрын
I believe the category that needs to be filed under is "dicey as fuck". Though the motion sure is smooth and silent... that's probably exactly what you DON'T want with a machine that has absolutely zero proper safety features. You WANT to be able to hear it coming.
@raraszek Жыл бұрын
Back then everything was built to last
@irt3rdavenueel1726 ай бұрын
Same elevator as in the Hollywood Tower Hotel from back in 1939
@whorton45 жыл бұрын
From back in the days, when "Elevator operator" was a valid job. . .
@tooleyheadbang42392 жыл бұрын
Occupation: 'Elevator operator (colored)'.
@beta_fishh529 Жыл бұрын
1:50 You got mail!
@VascoRoblox-yp5rw3 жыл бұрын
he is perfect in manually controlled elevators
@MillerMeteor746 жыл бұрын
Very interesting, but why is there no inner door? I loved this. Thanks.
@LAVDELUXE7 жыл бұрын
The old elevators were the safest
@billmoran38123 жыл бұрын
That’s what elevators were like when I was a child. Every elevator had a man who ran it all day.
@HobbyOrganist6 жыл бұрын
I ran a manual freight elevator back around 1980 in NYC in a 9 story building, but also one in our 22 story apartment building the handiman let me mess with when I was a teen :) The 9 story building also had an 1892 water powered hydraulic freight elevator that only went from the ground floor to the basement, it had a large water tank and a pump in the basement, it was real slow and started/stopped by a thru the car cable in the corner of the car, it was still there in 1981 but that space was later rented to a theater and they made changes, it's probably gone.
@rupe536 жыл бұрын
If you've ever been in Radio City Music Hall in NYC their stage has movable sections and that are still water powered. It's used for raising and lowering props and the orchestra section out of the basement to the stage level. The main reason it's still in use is because it's dead quiet and there are no pumps / motors to fail. It runs on the public water mains pressure.There's a very interesting Wiki page on it.
@buddyclem73286 жыл бұрын
Why did you remove the location in the description?
@itz_maya12232 жыл бұрын
Oml if I had a 20s house I would soooooo have that elevator in it
@stoopid21684 жыл бұрын
YOU GOT MAIL! 1:50
@kieubasiarz6 жыл бұрын
There is still a 1916 elevator in one hospital..
@fruitnap24166 жыл бұрын
😲😵😲😵 I would never!!!!!
@leodorego26295 жыл бұрын
Nice old elevator without gate elevator
@drussell_6 жыл бұрын
Why is this *old and dangerous* ? Any elevator will act essentially the same way as this when it is in service mode with the door locked open. It seems to be operating exactly as designed, despite being *old* it seems to function just fine! What is somehow excessively dangerous about this?!
@GaryCameron7804 жыл бұрын
You mean aside from no inner doors and no outer doors on the bottom floor?
@mauer5943 жыл бұрын
It doesn't have the same modern safety design as a new elevator.
@ainorambuenave2 жыл бұрын
when say old and dangerous i think in a paternoster
@thegamerplayshd58668 жыл бұрын
Actually these are defunct but they use as a freight elevator I think.
@phillipmoise79786 жыл бұрын
Obviously it's being modernized. The inside car gate has been removed and the gate switch jumped out along with the hoistway door interlocks. The first door you see is a new door with a new door closer. Would like to see the finished modernization.
@thefrenchelevatorchannel8 жыл бұрын
Bring the crank in Sweden :) and create the European elevator museum !
@thefrenchelevatorchannel8 жыл бұрын
***** Je crois que je vais voler ceux des galeries lafayette de Paris :) les ascenseurs ont été moddés par des Gen2 mais les manivelles y sont toujours juste pour la déco
@inferno6 жыл бұрын
On the third, look out for Otis Wright. Until then, keep your head up.
@MrJameswund4 жыл бұрын
Brand new GAL door equipment, would love to mod that thing out
@lyriox97834 жыл бұрын
1:51 you got mail
@EdgyShooter7 жыл бұрын
Far less fun than a Paternoster!
@avinashsinghsingh72375 жыл бұрын
Are great America
@cbayer50126 жыл бұрын
I think ill take the stairs
@BrapBrapDorito6 жыл бұрын
@ 1:51 YOU'VE GOT MAIL
@gghhrdghjr67776 жыл бұрын
Smack those lips! Smack those lips, Lippy!
@tonygamerrblx02 жыл бұрын
Creepy OTIS Lift!
@itepk05225 жыл бұрын
DiodeGoneWild would be happy
@ulissessantos11892 жыл бұрын
Muito bien, me gosta muito trabajo em elevadores gostaria trabalha no usa
@BrokebackBob6 жыл бұрын
So very cool! It must have passed inspection or they couldn't show it off!
@mizukicalayag30686 жыл бұрын
You are saying that this elevator is dangerous. But as what i can see is that altered the safety. It should not be working when the door is open.
@louisbarningham6 жыл бұрын
Wow its so cool!
@danieldmyers4 жыл бұрын
Uhh.. where’s the secondary gate to keep passengers clear of the open/moving shaft wall? That’s definitely dangerous without it lol
@ywnm6 жыл бұрын
Looks safer then most Chinese elevators.
@Txdcblues3 жыл бұрын
Wow that floor is paper thin!!
@quarans085 жыл бұрын
I feel that this was safer. Edit: Nevermind I thought you had to crank it.
@perfanjambi63785 жыл бұрын
GOOD ON OTIIIIIIIIIIS ELEVATOR
@kbhasi6 жыл бұрын
My guess is that there used to be another door on the inside, but that was probably removed as part of the attempted modernisation.
@hermanjohnsen36536 жыл бұрын
GOT stuck in a elevator for 3 minutes today
@dragonmaid13606 жыл бұрын
I'm pretty sure they had these in the old Bones buildings in Perth when I was a kid. Not the turn handle though but they looked like that