Looks like a proper attire only elevator. Perhaps a smoking jacket and pipe would be acceptable.
Oh, and someone there to press the button for you.
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Get off my LAWN! "Grumpy Old Farts"
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Oh, and someone there to press the button for you.
Number 1 on my 7th birthday? "Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart-Vera Lynn.
So, I listened to it. What a depressing POS! It was a German beer hall song that VL heard and had someone write English lyrics.
(It may explain a lot...)
So, I listened to it. What a depressing POS! It was a German beer hall song that VL heard and had someone write English lyrics.
(It may explain a lot...)
On top of the shaft on many helicopters is a device called a Jesus nut, which is secured in part by the Jesus pin. It keeps the rotors on the shaft. Guess how it got named.Why I will never ride in a helicopter again unless it's a medical emergency. I've flown in a Bell 47 a couple of times. Yeah, it's cool but I kept looking up at the rotor shaft and that's all that's holding it up.
Chopper pilots learn snappy phrases like "spontaneous in-flight disassembly" and "uncontrolled vertical deployment into the terrain"!
Have a nice day!
Have a nice day!
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Nature has its own "spontaneous in-flight disassembly" too
Pieter Bruegel the Elder, Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
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That reminded me of a story I heard back in 66/67. A Navy chopper* had been overhauled and in the process of putting it back together, they installed the rotor blades facing the wrong way! It turned out that the bolt(or whatever)holes were not staggered so that they'd line up either way. Luckily no one was hurt and a redesign of the mounting system happened rather quickly.
* no, IDK what kind
Then there are the good old days, when an elevator attendant was in charge of the controls. I guess either the elevators or the public could not be trusted on their own?
Chopper pilots learn snappy phrases like "spontaneous in-flight disassembly" and "uncontrolled vertical deployment into the terrain"!
Have a nice day!
Sounds like today's politicians trying to explain the unexplainable...
Corollary:
There are 10 kinds of people - those who understand binary and those who don’t.
It was probably a theft problem.
I recall a couple of stores that had fancy elevators with a lot of brass. There were women in uniforms that operated the elevators. There was an up down leaver; the brass accordion door (collapsible gate) and the main door was manually opened. The operators would call out what was on each floor. They also had to know where everything was in the the store. They were customer ambassadors. Shopping was an event.
School for training girls-elevator department store Marshall Fields. Chicago, 1947 — Steemit
In the 1950’S ladies dressed up to go shopping downtown.
You could buy a Rosemary Clooney record.
A visit to the restaurant was part of shopping at Woolworths.
School for training girls-elevator department store Marshall Fields. Chicago, 1947 — Steemit
In the 1950’S ladies dressed up to go shopping downtown.
You could buy a Rosemary Clooney record.
A visit to the restaurant was part of shopping at Woolworths.
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They dress now to go to Walmart. Barely. Pajamas seem popular.
WHAT??? People steal elevators?
Yeah. They're 'ticked' at the building's owner, so they give them the shaft. I'll see myself out.
Here is one of the classic elevators that wound up in a wealthy man's home.
This was salvaged from the J.L. Hudson Company that was a department store in downtown Detroit built in 1911.
The store had 29 floors.
This was salvaged from the J.L. Hudson Company that was a department store in downtown Detroit built in 1911.
The store had 29 floors.
They dress now to go to Walmart. Barely. Pajamas seem popular.
Pyjamas are a sign that you don’t have to work.
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Lunch today finds me dressed presentably. But I always endeavour to dress presentably, whether in public or for the Webcam. The likelihood I will ever wear the "pajamas" of the obscenely wealthy is Zero. Double Zero. Who has not had nightmares of going to school in their jammies? 
Friend was in town today for a doctor's appointment, and we took lunch here in this very strange (and, to my eye, insufficiently stable) world. She says all her friends who will never buy clothes at Walmart compliment her on the top she bought at Walmart. She's wearing it today ... and all the staff at the restaurant are wearing masks.
I mask up out of habit and I see others giving me looks for wearing the mask. By the book (this is what I'm given to understand), I'm vaccinated period. That I should be able to go out and about as if everything is perfectly normal. And I do declare, everything is not perfectly normal
Friend was in town today for a doctor's appointment, and we took lunch here in this very strange (and, to my eye, insufficiently stable) world. She says all her friends who will never buy clothes at Walmart compliment her on the top she bought at Walmart. She's wearing it today ... and all the staff at the restaurant are wearing masks.
I mask up out of habit and I see others giving me looks for wearing the mask. By the book (this is what I'm given to understand), I'm vaccinated period. That I should be able to go out and about as if everything is perfectly normal. And I do declare, everything is not perfectly normal
Elevator operation is one of the millions of jobs that disappeared where you don't need a college degree to do it... I worked for the old Bowery Savings Bank on 42'nd St in NYC and it had a crew of 6 or 7 male operators running 5 or 6 elevators with magnificent huge and heavy, carved ornamental brass doors, that began on a main floor with a cool brown and white marble hallway.
Matter of fact I got my own job there with just a HS diploma and worked my up from page boy to Senior Computer Programmer/Analyst and made a decent living there for years. Try doing that today? Shhhhhh, most banks wouldn't let you anywhere near a computer today w/o a Masters degree in Information Technology!!
But the prettiest elevator operator I've ever seen was Shirly MacLaine in "the Apartment". And yes, working downtown in NYC in the fifties and sixties was sometimes a bit like that in the flic...
Enjoy,
Greywoulf
Matter of fact I got my own job there with just a HS diploma and worked my up from page boy to Senior Computer Programmer/Analyst and made a decent living there for years. Try doing that today? Shhhhhh, most banks wouldn't let you anywhere near a computer today w/o a Masters degree in Information Technology!!
But the prettiest elevator operator I've ever seen was Shirly MacLaine in "the Apartment". And yes, working downtown in NYC in the fifties and sixties was sometimes a bit like that in the flic...
Enjoy,
Greywoulf
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Back in the early 80s, I was working on a construction site, that was in a renovated building. The building was originally, a parking garage. The cars were lifted to the upper floors, on a large elevator. The elevator was still functioning and was used as a freight elevator. The controls looked very similar to these, just not as fancy. It was quite a trick to get the elevator stopped even with the floor. Most of the time after moving a foot each way, we would call it “close enough” and unload our materials.
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