This is the elevator at the historic Famous Barr store in Downtown St Louis. Located in the historic railway exchange building that was built in 1924. The previous modernization featured the touch sensitive buttons. The current buttons suck in my opinion.
Montgomery must have gotten their hands on these, but they ARE Otis. But why do they need so many???
nidokingthefirst 1 month ago
(Mod. by Montgomery)
ElevatorNick 1 month ago
They dumbed down this store recently. It's only 3 floors now.
KyFriedPlatypus 2 months ago
those montgomery fixtures are quite nice
cullgmail 7 months ago
I thought that as well.
suzzex 2 years ago
Modernization perhaps.
suzzex 2 years ago
Modded by Montgomery.
suzzex 2 years ago
The entire 8th floor housed the advertising & marketing departments, and the mail room.
kilomag3 2 years ago
BB in this building stands for Basement Balcony, which housed the telephone orders department, the Terminal (registers) Service Group, the p.o. corrections people, phone operators and communications, and the EDP / IT dept.
kilomag3 2 years ago
I visited this store when the Macy's takeover was near. I loved the elevators and escalators (especially the wooden ones). I was most amazed by the 2 dinning rooms. My favorite was Papa Fabarr's on the 2nd floor. Everything was original to 1913 down to tin molded cielings and wrought iron victorian ceiling fans. I hope Macy's keeps it open. In my hometown we have a related store, it was the original Foley's. Macy's is keeping it open but the restaurant closed before i was born.
great onion soup
historiclift27 2 years ago