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3 unusual facts about Elevator


Dock plate

Various devices are employed in order to achieve this: dock plates, dock levellers, dock boards, and various forms of lift.

Duncan Faure

The band shortened their name to The Rollers and recorded three albums with Duncan as lead vocalist: Elevator, Voxx and Ricochet.

Elevator:2010

No competing tether surpassed the commercial off-the-shelf baseline and the prize was increased to $200,000 in 2006.


1221 Avenue of the Americas

The sunken courtyard of this building contains a large metal triangle designed by Athelstan Spilhaus and fabricated by Tyler Elevator Products, arranged so the Sun aligns with its sides at solstices and equinoxes.

Agar, South Dakota

It also is the site for a grain elevator, a livestock shelter dealer, a public golf course, and a motel-lodge, and a private golf course which has been rated 85th nationally by Golf Magazine.

Albert and Alberta Gator

He walked out of an elevator and became the object of Steve Irwin's alligator wrangling tendencies.

Augusta Mall

The space frame ceiling is a replica of The Mall in Columbia, Tampa Bay Center and Hulen Mall while the center fountain and elevator was taken from Beachwood Place, which opened the same month as Augusta.

Buffalo City Hall

Curtis Elevator Company furnished the first elevators, with additional elevators supplied later by Otis Elevator Company.

Cargill Pool Elevator

It was purchased in 1945 by investors who called themselves the "Pool Elevator Company." Pillsbury purchased the elevator facility in January, 1952 for $1 million.

Charles Manegold, Jr.

In 1876 he had become a partner of Charles James Kershaw in the ownership of the Northwestern Marine elevator and in 1878 he and his father purchased the Reliance Flour Mill at West Water street.

Chewing gum ban in Singapore

Chewing gum was causing serious maintenance problems in high-rise public housing flats, with vandals disposing of spent gum in mailboxes, inside keyholes and even on elevator buttons.

Counterweight

Many variants have been proposed, but the concept most often refers to an elevator that reaches from the surface of the Earth to geostationary outer space, with a counterweight attached at its outer end.

Cristina Castaño

In 2005 she returned to TVG in another series, 4º sen ascensor (in Galician, Fourth floor Without Elevator).

Dan Humphrey

In "The Dark Night," during the city-wide blackout, Dan and Serena talk about their problems while they were both trapped in an elevator.

Destination dispatch

Elevator manufacturers that offer destination dispatch include Otis Elevator, Kone Corporation, ThyssenKrupp, Schindler Group, Fujitec, Mitsubishi and Motion Control Engineering.

Elevator Action

The "Nintendo punk" band 14 Year Old Girls did a song about this game, titled "Elevator Action".

Elevator music

This style of music is sometimes used to comedic effect in mass media such as film, where intense or dramatic scenes may be interrupted or interspersed with such anodyne music while characters use an elevator (e.g. The Blues Brothers, Dawn of the Dead, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra and Spider-Man 2).

Florence-Roebling, New Jersey

The steel mill was also responsible for the production of the elevator cables for the Empire State Building in New York City, the Chicago Board of Trade Building in Chicago and the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C. John A. Roebling & Sons company made the wire for the original slinky as well.

Frank J. Christensen

The lawsuit was filed by United States Attorney Patrick Fitzgerald on behalf of the United States Department of Labor asking the Court to have Elevator Constructors Local 2 comply with the Department of Labor Subpoena Duces Tecum filed on April 24, 2007 for various records and documents in connection with an investigation to determine whether any person has violated or is about to violate the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act of 1959.

Grand Hôtel de París

In 1895, the Hotel Paris was sold to the company Baena, who renovated the hotel, transforming the rooms, and adding an elevator and electric lighting.

Lake of the Woods Milling Company

Krause Milling Co. - 1929 grain elevator and flour mill site in Radway, Alberta.

Linny Pacillo Parking Garage

The art in the garage, under the 1 Percent for Art Program, includes art inspired by Alaska flora and fauna on each garage level, a piece in the main elevator lobby that tells the Parking Fairies story, and a mural over the Seventh Avenue exit titled "Focus on Statehood" that features four men instrumental in Alaska's becoming a state: Bob Atwood, Bill Egan, Bob Bartlett and Ernest Gruening.

Løvenborg

It is the earliest example of Art Nouveau architecture in Denmark and also contains the first elevator in the country.

Mabel Scott

Mabel is probably remembered more for her 1948 hits Elevator Boogie and Boogie Woogie Santa Claus than for her 1949-1951 marriage to the featured piano player of Elevator Boogie, Charles Brown of Johnny Moore's Three Blazers.

Marilyn Churley

Toronto singer/songwriter Kurt Swinghammer wrote a song called "The Signature of Marilyn Churley", inspired by Churley's signature on an elevator license dating from her term in the Rae cabinet.

Merchant Street Historic District

Designed by Oliver G. Traphagen, newly arrived from Duluth, Minnesota, it boasted Hawaii's first passenger elevator when it opened in 1898.

Mortimer, Ohio

Mortimer has an Eagles club, a carry-out restaurant, an auto junk yard, a grain elevator, a trailer park, and a campground.

Mr. Bean in Room 426

The elevator percussive organ music Mr. Bean dances to in the hotel lobby resembles the Mario Paint "pushups" song and was used in a WLIW intro.

Nardin Park United Methodist Church

In 1989 another addition included an elevator, a Children's Worship Center, a Multi-Purpose Room, Chapel, Music Complex, Courtyard, Office Space, and Offices for the Samaritan Counseling Center.

Old National Bank Building

These five elevators were provided by the Otis Elevator Company, and ran smoothly up the entirety of the building with the help of live elevator operators.

Patricia McMahon Hawkins

During a three year hiatus from the Foreign Service, Pat served as the Executive Assistant to the President and CEO of Otis Elevator Company, in Farmington, Connecticut.

Phoenix Symphony Hall

Reconfigured main-floor cross aisles, additional elevators and a new wheelchair seating section, greatly improve accessibility for patrons with disabilities and updates compliance with the Americans with Disabilities Act.

Robin Hood Flour

Eventually the company became International Multifoods Corp The Moose Jaw mill eventually closed in 1966 due to over capacity; the mill was torn down but the grain bins and elevator are still in use as an inland terminal.

Scarborough Junction

It opened in 1955 named after Maria Goretti and boasts a double gymnasium with a stage, closed circuit television in every classroom, an elevator and an assembly area named the "Ark'" which can be used for gatherings of up to 300 people.

Schindler Group

On October 31, 2012, a 63-year-old woman at a hotel in Kanazawa, Ishikawa Prefecture, was crushed to death between the ceiling and the floor, when the Schindler elevator started moving while the door was still open.

Currently, Schindler Elevator Corporation, the United States operations of Schindler Group, is based in Morristown, New Jersey.

On June 3, 2006, a Schindler elevator in Minato, Tokyo, started ascending while the door was open.

Sea Lion Caves

The elevator took three years to build, but by June 1961, Otis Elevator Company completed the elevator.

Space elevator construction

Bradley C. Edwards, former Director of Research for the Institute for Scientific Research (ISR), based in Fairmont, West Virginia proposed that, if nanotubes with sufficient strength could be made in bulk, a space elevator could be built in little more than a decade, rather than the far future.

The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd

In addition to Brown and Tarses, the cast included Allyn Ann McLerie as Molly's mother, James Greene as her building's elevator operator/doorman, William Converse-Roberts as her ex-husband Fred Dodd, and Maureen Anderman as her best friend Nina.

The Hamsters

Otis Elevator's came about after seeing a manufacturer's name plate at the base of an escalator in a local shopping mall.

The Mo'Nique Show

Mo'Nique appears from an 'elevator', and is walked down the stairs by Rodney Perry.

The Unintended

The Unintended is a Canadian indie supergroup, consisting of Dallas Good, Travis Good, Sean Dean and Mike Belitsky of The Sadies, Greg Keelor of Blue Rodeo and Rick White of Eric's Trip and Elevator.

They Shoot Humphreys, Don't They?

Blair thinks her plans to take down Jenny may have worked out better if Chuck hadn’t cornered Blair and Serena (Blake Lively) in an elevator until they made up.

Titán

The Beastie Boys record label, Grand Royal, edited two more records with 40 remixes of "Corazón", and Virgin Records UK released word wide the album "Elevator".

TripleOne Somerset

Situated between Somerset Road and Devonshire Road, Group 2 Architects designed the PUB Building based on the concept of H-shaped block with a central service core and a naturally-ventilated lift lobby.

When the Lady Smiles

Dutch actor Huub Stapel has a cameo in the music video as an elevator mechanic, referencing the movie De Lift.

WXPN-HD2

The slogan used to be :"NO RAP, no hard stuff, and no sleepy elevator music. Just the best songs on the radio. Y100..." There were some alternative songs at the time, but the playlist was overshadowed by many other songs from Ace of Base, U2, Stereo MCs ("Connected"), and Haddaway ("What Is Love").


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