The London Underground used to still have wooden escalators when I was a child in some stations. It used to freak me out! Town Hall station in Sydney still has wooden escalators though! :D
I've ridden those the two times I've been to Macy's (NYC). Never felt easy about those, being that my shoe laces might get caught. Other than that, it was definately different, and I can say I've ridden original wooden escalators.
Yeah, in Philadlphia to, Lit Brothers, Gimbel's, Snellenberg's and John Wanamakers all had wooden escalators I heard, wow, those must have been fun to ride on.
It's not just fingers that children lose - as the victim of an escalator accident, I lost my baby toe at age five. The tiny space between the steps and side are enough room to suck in a small ones digits even if they lightly bump against the side, as was my case.
I hate going on these escalators when I'm wearing thin high heals. There's very little surface for my heal. I never heard of kids' getting their finger cut off.
I love it when people are all "Duuh, yeah, they had to remove them all coz it's a fire hazzard, yeah, they're gone now" and I'm like "dude, I rode them last Christmas"
Escalators by the very nature are a fire hazard, an opening between 2 floors. Add to that the fact that you have them in series from floor to floor and the danger adds. The real solution from a fire standpoint is to have automatic doors and a stairwell with escalators. Elevators simply do not move enough people .
The description is misleading, the news reports about the child losing a finger on Macys wooden elevators didn't take place on the 7th or 8th floor, the only fully wooden escalators remaining in NYC. The remaining escalators have metal (aluminum) steps, although some have wooden side panels. Shame on anyone who wants to destroy history because some bad parent wasn't watching their kid and didn't teach them how to behave.
Nice, but a fire hazard. There was a massive fire here in London in 1987 at King's Cross station where thirty-one people died and the station was destroyed because of these catching alight.
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Cool, I went on this when we visited NYC. Great to have some memories back :-). Greetings from Norway.
The London Underground used to still have wooden escalators when I was a child in some stations. It used to freak me out!
Town Hall station in Sydney still has wooden escalators though! :D
I've ridden those the two times I've been to Macy's (NYC).
Never felt easy about those, being that my shoe laces might get caught. Other than that, it was definately different, and I can say I've ridden original wooden escalators.
Yeah, in Philadlphia to, Lit Brothers, Gimbel's, Snellenberg's and John Wanamakers all had wooden escalators I heard, wow, those must have been fun to ride on.
There are a few of these wooden-tread escalators in Sydney CityRail stations.
Unique... never seen it before.
Just got back from a trip to NYC and I got to ride those exact escalators!
I would dream going there and riding in it. Thank god we have some ancient stuff
That Good memory from history in the UK!!!!
Also infamous for it's trench effect which played the devastating role in the King's Cross Inferno which seized 31 lives 27 years ago
It's not just fingers that children lose - as the victim of an escalator accident, I lost my baby toe at age five. The tiny space between the steps and side are enough room to suck in a small ones digits even if they lightly bump against the side, as was my case.
they have these at macys plaza in pittsburgh that are for 13 and 12 floors the rest are reagular escalators
How can you find it boring, it gives you exactly what the title says...
Were you expecting Darth Vader to be playing a guitar solo with explosions?
I hate going on these escalators when I'm wearing thin high heals. There's very little surface for my heal.
I never heard of kids' getting their finger cut off.
I love it when people are all "Duuh, yeah, they had to remove them all coz it's a fire hazzard, yeah, they're gone now" and I'm like "dude, I rode them last Christmas"
Escalators by the very nature are a fire hazard, an opening between 2 floors.
Add to that the fact that you have them in series from floor to floor and the danger adds.
The real solution from a fire standpoint is to have automatic doors and a stairwell with escalators.
Elevators simply do not move enough people .
Oh i've seen a few when I lived in Canada.
they have those at the macys plaza tower in pittsburgh
I sure hope you can't drop a lit match between step and siderail.
Why did people's fingers get cut off?
Ahem, *cough* Kings Cross *cough*
That's cool
norwegian wood.
Reminds me of the King's Cross wooden escalator fire that killed 31 people.
you know youre bored when...
hahaha
So how many kids' fingers do you think are inside? ;-)
Oh wow. I wonder how many OSHA rules you would break if you tried to build one of these in 2011?.
The description is misleading, the news reports about the child losing a finger on Macys wooden elevators didn't take place on the 7th or 8th floor, the only fully wooden escalators remaining in NYC. The remaining escalators have metal (aluminum) steps, although some have wooden side panels.
Shame on anyone who wants to destroy history because some bad parent wasn't watching their kid and didn't teach them how to behave.
Shame on firefighters who wants to destroy history because a smoker dropped a lit match into the escalators
yea
what if someone light it on?
They sure have Termite feasting on them.
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when i went it bit on my shoe laces and stole my shoe!
if their fingers are still there, 3
probably *lol* :-)
boaring
FAKE!!!!!!!!
Nice, but a fire hazard. There was a massive fire here in London in 1987 at King's Cross station where thirty-one people died and the station was destroyed because of these catching alight.