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They for some reason run on their own. Why would they do that?
+carryclass Actually the building is very vacant because on the 19th floor
there are at least 10 to 15 offices and only 1 or 2 are actually being
used.
DieselDucy you just combined my two favorite things…vintage elevators and
Tornado facts and history
Going to go see these myself as well as the old hotel settles hope these
are still there and the settles is 15 floors built in 1930 they replaced
the elevators but a lot of the buildings decor were restored by hand so
gotta do a hotel tour there
Went there today they are GONE 2 cars remain but they are off limits being
shut down and they have tacked up the lobby with a security desk that looks
modern and plain and modern furniture and the walls are being left to decay
Security won’t let you ride any of them anymore I saw the new car the right
one is done the other 3 are in process they chose the cheapest vandal
resistant fixtures you can buy and won’t let you go anywhere but up to the
doors and in the lobby paint is peeling walls are cracking building is in
sorrowful state
Well… seems neither Schindler nor OTIS can maintain old elevators. If
Schindler does, they fall apart. If OTIS does, their machine rooms are
turned into museums.
Andrew, There is a shuttle elevator at the Meadow Park Tower from 15 that
went to 16 and when you go up to 16 the button for 15 would light up
automatically the door stayed open and waited on 15. On 15 the indicator
said 0 at 15, but it said 16 at 16. When my mom and I went there she wanted
to look around on 16 but I wanted to wait for her in the elevator and guess
what happened….. It went back down to 15 without me pressing the button
and next time we went there we looked around on both 15 and 16 and the next
time we caught by security and he told us that floors 15 and 16 were
CLOSED. I think that elevator was originally a Mark 4 Westinghouse. The
next time we went there the door was closed on 15 and 16 was completely
VACANT. They are now renovating the 15th and 16th floors. My mom once
worked on the 16th floor at the Meadow Park Tower.
The 15th and 16th floors in the Meadow Park Tower are now renovated.
cool
These are nice elevators. The motors sound really nice too.
I kind of like this elevator system because of the bell on elevator
#2 but do the 3 other elevators have a working bell
i found a set of elevators like this in Washington PA but there OTIS and
there only 11 floors
2 of the 4 elevators are still in service. They are modernized by Schindler
I am in Lubbock and rode those elevators after modernization.
A couple of extra facts since I’ve been fascinated with this building since
I was a kid.
(1) The lobby was for First National Bank’s tellers (they share the lower
floors with an insurance company) and when they moved into their own
building two blocks over the investment firm Dean Witter Reynolds occupied
the first floor.
(2) The 20th floor that you filmed was a restaurant and the night of the
tornado two of my great aunts were up there having supper. When the storm
first hit they all moved to the emergency stairwell.
(3) It did indeed take on a F5 directly and if you look up at the SW
corner of the building you can see the building twist a few degrees and the
bricks off the elevator shaft popped off. Too bad you weren’t able to see
where the reinforced the steel on the lower floors.
(4) Several days after the May 11, 1970 tornado downtown was kept
evacuated for fears the building was going to fall. Actually, it sat empty
for about six years until a group of real estate investors in Amarillo
bought the building for the back taxes.
(5) Texas Tech University received several grants to inspect the building
and the south facade on what I remember to be the 5th & 5th floors was torn
away so the engineers and students could study. This is how the Texas Tech
Wind Engineering program was started.
The Lubbock Avalanche-Journal has a lot of pictures from that tornado.
Thanks for letting me babble on.
http://lubbockonline.com/slideshows/010309/373680407/slide1.shtml
Westinghouse elevators are awesome!
I like that bell
When the westy wants to go the westy will go words I live by
That’s a realy fast alevator..
Unfortunately, I looked up on the TDLR Elevator Lookup, and I found out
that Schindler had modernized these elevators in 2013. So now, these
historic elevators have been horribly butchered.
who the fuck is acctualy intrested in looking at elevators
I can guarantee you from the operation of these elevators that they are not
original Westinghouse elevators.
Check out this video on YouTube:
Have you flushed the toilets yet?