Thanks for resurrecting this thread!

Most interesting elevator I've seen since 2000: The high rise ones in the Westin Times Square, where the cars never seem to reach a steady cruising speed. Instead, they seem to continually accelerate, then start decelerating. The higher up you are in the building, the longer the acceleration phase lasts. Really neat.

I'm still searching for still-in-use manual control "car switch" cars, preferably ones with pneumatically operated doors. Examples include Seattle's Smith Tower, San Francisco's Coit Tower, Detroit's Fox Theatre, and, until a few years ago, London's Harrods. Does anyone know of more of these 1920s-era lifts still in operation?


[This message has been edited by AlexB (edited Mar 16, 2004).]