Michigan millionaire built new home around rescued Hudson's elevator
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 3 ต.ค. 2024
- Alex Begin and his original J. L. Hudson elevator installed in his Bloomfield Township home
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This is a totally amazing man. I have met this gentleman. He is very humble and pursued a dream and made it a reality. He was kind enough to show me this elevator and it is beyond amazing what he has done with it. This is a working museum piece.
This so awesome
Thank you for saving this!
Aw man, when I heard a Hudson's lift was being restored I was hoping it would be in a public building where I could see it. Very cool though!
I would love to see more videos of this elevator!
Have a detailed video going live possibly this weekend.
BRAVO! Thank you, sir, for the awesome memories.
THAT. IS. FABULOUS‼️❤️❤️❤️
Thank you for saving this elevator. When I was young, we’d come accross from Canada and always wonder at the place. I see that the brass folding inner doors are not on your elevator. Yes. I remember them! The toy floor was great - but at Xmas - it was magical. The winter decorations in the windows wer3 just amazing. Who ever did them were real artists! I always looked forward to seein Santa, choosing the toys we hoped for, then having lunch. On the way home, grabbing chocolate bars that we couldn’t get in Canada - at Greenfield’s Drug.
This is so insanely cool!!
Good for him. We went to the downtown Hudsons store all year long but especially at Christmas time.
I was in that elevator once- oh how I miss those days!
I just love this!
so awesome
That is awesome! Please show more of the inside and out! I remember the glass globes that indicated up (white) and down (red), and the call buttons, all trimmed in brass.
AWESOME!!!!
Wow, My mom took me down there from Flushing alot , my 88 year old mom that lives with me with Alzheimers now but retired from Hudsons a long time ago. I remember the top people from Hudsons coming to a dinner my family invited them to.
I am just blow away with your video sharing a piece of our life with us!
That’s awesome!
And we got to see this amazing man's dream become a reality!
Spectacular!
I remember back in the 60s when I was a kid. My mom would take me to Hudson's downtown, and if we timed it right, we'd ride the elevator and encounter the same older black lady who ran a certain elevator and she would make jokes, talk to the others on the elevator as the floors passed by. She wore a uniform with white gloves. She was very friendly and funny. Man, I missed those days. I still remember how I felt then down in the pit of my stomach and in my mind's eye.
Do you remember Captain Bob o lo? He was a little person who looked a lot like Popeye?
@@sandraurquia6050 not funny
I also remember the black lady.
Amazing!
Ok, admit it everyone. When he turned the crank you said, “second floor, bedrooms, master bath, linen closet…”
That is really neat that you were able to save one of the manual elevators and actually install it in your home, with it operating just as it did in the Hudson bldg. I remember the manual elevators in a couple department stores in downtown Baltimore when I was growing up in the 1950s and '60s. They also had pneumatic operated car gates and outer hoist way doors. Sometimes you'd hear a faint hissing or whistling sound from an air leak in the pneumatic system while the car was moving. Sadly, one store converted to automatic elevators in the mid-1960s, but the other store kept the manual elevators until the store closed in 1983. However, they did replace the doors/gates and pneumatic operating systems with electric operators in 1977, so no more hissing sounds.
Thanks! For saving a bit of yesterday ELEGANCE. Are you wear your white gloves?
Neat. Could we tour your home? My wife is a professional designer
This is probably as close as you can get to a Signal Control Otis!
Hello! Congratulations! I too am a J.L.Hudon's elevators enthusiast from way back - even as a kid - but I am a trifle older than you. I could go on and on with positive comments and a few negative ones about your project. Most of the negative are not your fault but a result of codes, etc. There is ONE thing, however, which catches my eye when I watch this video and it is something easily corrected. Someone will "call" you one day on this (maybe). The car switch is wired backwards. Always, always, in car switch operated elevators (see books, other TH-cam videos, real life) moving the handle towards the gate or doors is the DOWN direction. Yours is reversed. Mark
damn imagine having to build a 20 story house just so you could use the elevator
I'd like to design a t-shirt with that old Otis elevator logo, and also one with the old J.L. Hudson logo.
Great stuff- Where are your white gloves ? Have one on the brown signs to let you know this particular elevator is not running
To bad he only could rescue one😔
I wonder how many of these were actually saved ?
Hi mr Alex, please give me a job at US.