Comments about elevator

There are 34 comments about "elevator"

Garry Johns: Well why is it that, some always have to find fault? If you don't like it fine, but for crying out loud don't try to crams your views down our throats! As a......

in response to: Ugly, Heritage, or Both? by Cameo

Hands and Feet: Just got this today. The reality is this all started about the mid fifties or earlier. I remember moving several times before I was five years of age. This was due to depressed economics in......

in response to: henry horner projects by b. sloane

Peter: nice! whats up with the sculpture of the boy on the roof (the 10th pic)? i particularly liked the one of the guy checking out the woman getting on the elevator and the one of......

in response to: Compilation Part Two by chiamattt

oevre: Remember Hutchinson in mainly four images....swimming pool in Summer near the grain elevator...high school with brilliant turquoise colored panels, architect was Californian, people said...the old old deep red brick junior high where my parents went......

in response to: America\'s Most Boring Towns: 10 by Scott Sargent

Chris: Monday July 9th, I made a point to stop by today and view the progress. The family spent the weekend up on Greenhorn. The forest service has work ahead of them to reopen the road......

in response to: Bishop Castle: Another Self-Made Masterpiece by Jim Bishop

Slomo: I used to be a bikemessenger in NYC from 98'-03', almost everyday i had to go to 601 W 26th Street, the actual address of the building, there were guys, mostly russians, they exactly knew......

in response to: Chelsea Loft Building: by Peter

Jason: The gold medal sign is on top of the former Washburn-Crosby elevator #1. The elevator was built in 1906, the second or third concrete grain elevator in the world. Each sign was originally lit by......

in response to: Northstar Blankets/Gold Medal Flour by Tyfoid Kid

nailhead*tom: Hey, Tyfoid Kid, you're pretty good. At this moment a demo crew is starting to knock down the Bunge grain elevator at 14th and Como Ave. S.E. You should get over there and......

in response to: Taconite Plant by Tyfoid Kid

procyon: ooh! i especially like the fifth one and the last one... it's always a surprise to see how beautiful pop is in the sunlight. the building on top of a building reminds me of the elevator......

in response to: DownTown Buildings by Tyfoid Kid

EvilGentleman: I tried, grange. I now have a severely bruised tailbone since I had 12 webs in a row snap. Apparently, the tensile strength of a spidey-man web is only 300 pounds, dammit! Ever notice that......

in response to: Rooftop Mystery by EvilGentleman

murphy: I grew up in Turner Towers in the mid fifties. It was wonderful...with a doorman and a switch board operator. The hallways always smelled like "cooking"...and the elevator operators were warm and friendly!~......

in response to: Eastern Parkway Memories by Unknown

little ukraine: From today's Brooklyn Daily Eagle... "On November 15, 1977 the Williamsburgh Savings Bank...was declared a landmark. It was designed by Halsey, McCormack & Helmer in 1927. They chose a Romanesque style for the 512-foot......

in response to: Williamsburgh Savings Bank Clocktower in Mourning by GGP

Schrodinger's Cat: Actually the construction of this building started in late 1989 . It was supposed to be a 58 storey high office tower called the Bay Adelaide Tower. It was......

in response to: White Elephant Down by Tom Miller

Ric Romero: This cement structure was to be the elevator shaft of a tall building. But -ooops- they run out of money for the rest of the building. There was once an ad for a mutual fund......

in response to: White Elephant Down by Tom Miller

aer suzuki: oh yeah, these are cool. the top one's the best although i also really like the empty elevators....

in response to: 5 Times # by joey

EvilGentleman: Ironically, I have seen taller buildings in Iqaluit, Nunavut. And the buildings in Montreal were originally not allowed to be higher than Mount Royal (much like Halifax and the Citadel). Nowadays, the heights of the buildings......

in response to: Fredericton Skyscrapers by CE

S: If you get a chance to tour the Flatiron Building (also known as the Gooderham building) during the upcoming "doors open", I would highly recommend it. That building still has it's original 1892 elevator (still......

in response to: Interesting Places... by Elicar

jeeff: very informative article, tho i think your enthusiasm for the space needle definitely clouds your objectivity a bit. a couple things: 1) the space needle itself was inspired by the stuttgart tv tower in germany,......

in response to: Spawn of the Space Needle by Machupicchu

GGP: the broken glass is like the beginning of the universe. the ruffles chips are like what would be left of George W. if I had 3 minutes alone in an elevator with him. the cupcake wrap......

in response to: Gutters by elaine

Jo : March 18 2006, The Elevator is not run by the parks department, or at least not Physicaly. The Elevator Operators are outsorced. They are from a private company that applies for a contract each year.......

in response to: Public Elevator by stillseeingred

moose: " it is we ,the humans , who have intruded on their hahitat" This is true from a historical point of view . BUT. I work in the cnstruction industry and we......

in response to: Raccoons, Cute or Dangerous? by Elicar

Raoul Davachi: I'm a bike courier, and I am so god damn tired of people in cars, or worse, people in suits walking on sidewalks who think they rule the world. I was talking to the......

in response to: Motorist Vs Courier by hool

Peter: woah! there was an elevator similar to that at my old office... whenever i was riding it alone, i would scrape my keys across it to make a rhythm, sort of like a metal [[wiki:guiro]]......

in response to: Op Photo Op by joey

Catherine Penfold-Waxman: The inside of the elevator at [[2648:Staten Island University Hospital North]]. The whole inside is covered in it. It makes your eyes bug out. [[img:7590]] [[img:7591]] ...

in response to: Op Photo Op by joey

Peter: aha! theres a rumor (urban legend?) that there was a "speakeasy" in-between the two floors of that elevator back in the prohibition days that a special "heyword" to the operator got you into. its too......

in response to: 168th Street by GGP

Myke: Ugh, that elevator sounds worse than the ones they have at the Covent Garden tube station in London. The first time I went in there I took the stairs having not noticed the sign saying......

in response to: 168th Street by GGP

Peter: i really wish i had some photos of it when it was packed during the morning rush. an elevator the size of a van filled with 100 people... in teh summertime, it got up to......

in response to: 168th Street by GGP

GGP: i came uncomfortably close to an anxiety attack waiting for that damn elevator to come....

in response to: 168th Street by GGP

Peter: awesome! i used to work at columbia presbyterian! i got off at the 1/9 station at 168th every day :) manm, waiting for the crowds to file outta those huge elevators was a truly......

in response to: 168th Street by GGP

vz: it doesn't seem horrific to me at all -- i lived in places that look exactly like these for a good part of my life, actually, just not in this country -- but it does......

in response to: projects, against a beautiful sky by vz

JoeyD: actually yes- not on the top however, on the stairway wall- you take an elevator up to a certain point and then i think its 43 steps to the top. I do seem to remember......

in response to: Coit US by JoeyD

Oliver: This building, at 550 Madison Avenue, is now the home of Sony Corporate of America and SonyBMG (Previously Sony Music), where I worked for too many years. One of the oddest things about it......

in response to: NYC: The AT&T Building by Peter

Marc: great tokyo pics jeeff- doomo.. what's the most layers of throughway uve counted in a stack? i visited in 2000 and counted 7 near shibuya.. i wish i had some pics of the ferris-wheel-elevator-car-parking garages,......

in response to: tokyo tunnels (under the skin) by jeeff

hool: this is a really tight layering, very well seen. the opacity of the elevator layer is the flavor of dreaming. are you different from Tim from L.A. ?...

in response to: Untitled by MCM