A beautiful old elevator...

[ATITANIC1992]

I'm trying to get the american mentality "why keep old crap and why remember the past?. why keep old exciting and beautiful elevators when we can replace them with modern senseless scrapmetal? Why keep manual doors when you can have boring and ugly automatic?"

there should also be security controls at every elevator so you cant ride it before completely undressing and using hours showing 100s of identity papers. all this while guns are pointing at you.

Did i get the american mentality right?

[B7571]

i live in finland

[elevatorfreak112]

great find i love these things good job on the video too

[randomforum]

Ah this was a finnish elevator :D I read "Ohjeita" On the wall there... and in the description Jyväskylä :D

[Mikey84]

Yep, it's an old KONE elevator in one building Jyväskylä...

[myotismon767]

Cool elevator. It's too bad these types have become less common. They have so much character.

[OktoberSunset]

hmmm, not that old, it still has push buttons rather than an up n down lever. I've been in one with a lever.

[Mikey84]

In here many elevators from 1920s already had push buttons... and I believe this elevator has been modernized in the late 1960s or early 1970s...

[Mikey84]

I agree :)

[djFadeOut122]

its a kone elevator i think.

[Mikey84]

You're right.

[crapper1]

hydraulic elevators suck the old elevators are the best its rare to find these types in the u.s.a

[NEXPAR]

They restored one here in Denver and it's da Bomb!

[hapetsu]

Tämä on kyllä hieno yksilö. Painiketaulusta päätellen tämä on asennettu 1960-1963 arviolta, jos ei sitten ole modernisoitu 60-luvulla.

Sisustus näyttää poikkeuksellisen tyylikkäälle.

[Mikey84]

Voi olla että tätä on uusittu silloin... en koskaan ole muistanut katsoa sarjanumeroa / muuta infoa, vaikka olen tälläkin hissillä matkustellut useamman kerran...

Olin kyllä itsekin positiivisesti yllättynyt tämän hissin tyylikkyydestä. Roomalaiset numerot ja kaikki :)

[someone7272]

I love these kinds of elevator. There are not many in the UK where I live. There is only one in this Chinese Restraunt in London, and I havn't visited it for a while. If they havn't modernised it by the time I next visit, I will post a video.

[Mikey84]

Me too.

Too bad we don't have much of these elevators in Finland too. Modernisation and EU directives, you know...

They should modernise all of these elevators by just replacing the electrics and safety systems and leave the car and doors intact... or replace the scissor gate with automatic glass doors... they are already doing that for some elevators here...

[someone7272]

Nah, I like the scissor gates because you can see the counterweight move in the shaft!!! Ooh Happy days, I ought to go and visit the old elevator again. And I like pulling the door open too. I also think they should do away with safety systems, I love UNSAFE and JERKY and CREAKY elevators! :D

[StreetGlowMusashi]

Hissit kiinnostaa? :D

[Mikey84]

Hulluilla on halvat huvit, idiooteilla ilmaiset :)

[musicfreakcc]

Cool elevator. There are not that many old ones near Atlanta - where I live.

[Mikey84]

Yeah, this elevator is cool, indeed :) I was positively surprised when I saw it... I knew this building had an old elevator, so I just got in.

I'm sure that there are LOTS of old elevators in USA...

And if you ever come to visit Finland and want to ride old elevators, be sure to check our capital Helsinki :)

[musicfreakcc]

There are many, just not in the south. I once rode in a 100 year Oits, that would basically run at full speed, then hit the brakes. It has since been replaced :-(

[Mikey84]

This elevator is made by KONE (at least there was a KONE text just above the inner door handle of the outer door)...

I guess this elevator is something 70-80 years old...

It's a shame that the 100-year-old Otis you mentioned was replaced, though the reasons are obvious... Here in Europe we have old elevators where the technique is renovated, but the car itself and the doors are intact. Dunno about USA...

[musicfreakcc]

They renovate some elevators, but many people are superstitious about elevators failing so most are replaced - ironically with hydraulic elevators which are less safe.

[Mikey84]

Those people have never heard about security brakes - even these old elevators have them :) ...

But generally the newer elevators are safer...

[musicfreakcc]

Or even governors for that matter.