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unusual facts about escalator



Hong Kong Park

The park can be easily reached by walking through the Pacific Place and its nearby escalator.

Jesse W. Reno

His invention was referred to as the "inclined elevator." An earlier escalator machine, termed "revolving stairs" by its inventor Nathan Ames, was patented March 9, 1859, but was never built.

Joske's

The store was expanded and renovated again in 1939, sporting a new Art Deco facade as well as the first escalators installed in a Texas store.

Life, Love, and the Pursuit of Free Throws

Josie repeatedly attempts to impress her crush, Ethan Lancaster, with little success,even tripping down an up escalator at the mall to try to get his attention, while her best friend Cami is doing everything she can to become the high scorer on the basketball team so that she'll be chosen to participate in a demonstration with the coach's old friend and her idol, Rebecca Lobo.

Makes No Sense at All

The video used both "Makes No Sense At All" and "Love Is All Around" played in sequence; for the "Love is All Around" sequence the video has the band copying iconic scenes from the Minneapolis-based Mary Tyler Moore Show opening credit sequence such as leaving Dayton's and riding the escalator and eating at the IDS Center.

Mirrorman

Kazuhide Uekusa, Japanese economist, nicknamed Mirrorman after being arrested for an incident involving a hand mirror, an escalator, and a high school girl's skirt

OUE Downtown

Firms involved in the development of the building included DBS Land Limited, Ohbayashi-Gumi, Ltd., Steen Consultants Private Limited, Liu Cheng Consulting Engineers, Davis Langdon & Seah Philippines Inc., and Mitsubishi Elevator and Escalator.

Rob Lathan

He has starred in multiple missions, including getting lost all over Yankee Stadium, giving 2,000 high fives to New York commuters by standing on a stairway next to a subway escalator and as a Ghostbuster going through the NYC Library.

Safety on the London Underground

Following the 1987 King's Cross fire as well as the permanent smoking ban on all London Underground premises, the programme of wooden escalator replacement was sped up, and stricter controls on the storage of materials were introduced.

Staroměstská

There were also plans to build a second escalator tunnel with an entrance from the northeast corner of the Old Town Square which would use and show to the public a preserved cellar of a medieval house (like the ruins of a medieval bridge at Můstek station), but this has been postponed indefinitely due to financial constraints.

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.


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